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thorax twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, slightly 

 angulate at the middle, the anterior angles in shape of a small 

 tubercle, the surface sparingly punctured, metallic green, very 

 shining, transversely salcate at each side with another short sulcus 

 below the anterior margin and one at the middle of the base, scu- 

 tellam ralher broad, its apex roanded ; elytra wider at the base than 

 the thorax, obsoletely depressed below the former, minutely 

 punctured and wriiikled and clothed with very fine short hairs; 

 below metallic green, impunctate. 



Nilgiri Hills. 



As far as I am able to judge, ail the spécimens obtained are 

 maies. ■ . 



SIKKIMIA METALLICA sp. n. 



Elongate, metallic bright green, the antennae piceous, thorax 

 subquadrate, impunctate, deeply bifoveolate, elytra minutely and 

 irregularly punctured. 



Length 5 mill. 



Head impunctate, with a short longitudinal groove above the 

 antennse, the frontal élévations only indicated, transverse, clypeus 

 very short, the penullimate joint of the palpi, incrassate, terminal 

 joint very small and pointed, antenuEe filiform, extending beyond 

 the middle of the elytra, piceous or dark fulvous, the basai joint 

 black, elongate and curved, second one, small, third joint slightly 

 shorter than the fourth, the rest nearly equal, slender; thorax 

 slightly broader than long, the sides straight, the angles distinct 

 but not produced, the dise deepiy bifoveolate, impunctate, scutel- 

 lum broad, its apex rounded, black, elytra parallel and elongate, 

 with a distinct suturai dépression near the middle, very finely and 

 rather closely punctured, metallic green or cupreous, their 

 epipleurse narrow but distinct below the middle, legs slender, the 

 tibise unarmed, the metatarsus of the posterior legs ralher longer 

 than the following two joints together, claws appendiculate, the 

 anterior coxal cavities open, prosternum invisible between the 



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Sikkimia was established by Duvivier (Gompt. rend. Soc. Ent. 

 Belg. 1891) on an Indian Galenicide in which the antennse of the 

 maie hâve the two last joints anormal; of the insect described hère 

 I hâve evidenlly only female spécimens before me in which the 

 antennœ are simple, but as every olher character agrées with 

 Duvivier's genus, which I do not know but through his description 

 I must refer the Nilgiri species to it. 



