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punctured throughout, cupreous, a transverse spot at the base, a 

 narrower one (composed of two spots nearly joined) at the middle 

 near the margin and a subquadrate one near the suture, in a line 

 with the latéral spot, purplish, marglned with green; below and 

 the femora metallic bluish, stained with cupreous, the tibiae and 

 tarsi fulvous; the basai joint of the anterior and intermediate tarsi 

 broadly dilated (cT?). 



Hah. Nilgherries. 



I possess two spécimens of this species, which is at once distin- 

 guished from G. cuprea by the colour of the antenna3, tibise and 

 tarsi and by the strong elytral punctuation, also by the want of the 

 apical elytral spot. 



GALÊRUCIN-ŒJ. 



AULAGOPHORA (Orthaulaca) NILGIRIENSIS sp. n. 



Entirely testaceous, thorax impunctate, the transverse sulcus 

 straight, elytra extremely finely punctured anteriorly only. 



Mas. The last abdominal segment with the médian lobe, flat, the 

 latéral ones rounded. 



Fem. The corresponding segment simple, obtusely rounded. 



Length 7-8 mill. 



I must separate this species from A. similis Oliv. to which it is 

 closely allied but entirely difïering in the sexual characters of the 

 last abdominal segment which in A. similis bas the médian lobe of 

 the maie deeply sulcate, while the female differs from that of the 

 présent species in the emarginate anterior edge of the last segment. 

 The colour in the fifteen spécimens before me shows no variation; 

 thethoracic sulcus is straight and of equal depth, the shoulders are 

 not pubescent and ail the tibise are mucronate; the antennae are 

 long and slender, the first joint is but slightly thickened, not 

 strongly so and subquadrate as in -4, similis and the third and 

 fourth joints are equal, the elytral punctuation is scarcely percep- 

 tible and that at the base only. 



AULACOPHORA SIMILIS Oliv. 



Weise has placed A. similis in his genus OHhaulca (Jieni. Ent. 

 Zeitsch. 1892, p. 393) and gives it as the type. Spécimens named by 

 Baly and which entirely agrée with Olivier's description far better 

 fit in the genus Rhaphidopalpa as defined by Weise, than in 

 Orthaulaca as the basai joint of the antennae as well as the deep 

 thoracic sulcus is nearly similar to that of R. foveicollis Kiist which 



