COBBONCHUS. CRATOPLAXYS. 



mediate coxae. Antennae five-jointed ; a raised centrally hollowed 

 and marginally ridged process between the intermediate and 

 posterior coxae. 



Allied to Cratoplatys and Heterocrates. 



1. Codronchus andamanensis, Dist. A 

 (1901). 



Codronchus andamanensis. 



the lateral margins convex and somew 

 scutellum with a faint central lon^ 

 piceous, second joint shortest. 



Length 8 ; max. breadth 5 millim. 



Hah. Andaman Islands {Coll. Dist.). 



. M. N. H. (7) viii, p. 233 



Black, very thickly punc- 

 tate : eyes ochraceous, ros- 

 trum brownish-ochraceous ; 

 femora more or less cas- 

 taneous. Head with an un- 

 dulating transverse ridge 

 between the eyes, and with 

 a short waved basal ridge ; 

 pronotum with a patch o£ 

 transverse striae at centre 

 of anterior margin, and 

 with a broad central trans- 

 verse impression on disk, 

 hat foliate ; pronotum and 

 ritudinal ridge. Antennae 



Genus CEATOPLATYS. 



Cratoplatys, Montnvd. A%v. Mu,". Civ, Gentv. xxxiv, p. 119 (1894). 



Type, C. gestroi, Montand. 



Distribution. Pegu. 



As stated by its describer, Cratoplatys is allied to Heterocrates, 

 Handlirsihiella, and ApJianojmenwa, and with them forms a dis- 

 tinct group, having the head very large, the ocelli less separated 

 from each other than from the eyes, and the stigmata situated on 

 the abdominal margin. It difPers, however, from these three 

 genera by its greater breadth of body, from Heterocrates and 

 Handlir Seidell a by the nearly straight anterior margin of the pro- 

 notum, and from ApJianojjneimia by the antennae attenuated at 

 the extremities, the third joint distinctly shorter than the first, 

 and by the position of the ocelli, which are more separated from 

 the eyes. 



2. Cratoplatys gestroJ, Mejvtcnd. Avn. Mvs. Civ. G&%ov. xxxiv, p. liO 

 (1894). 



Black, shining ; head with the margins of the central lobe, a 

 transverse fascia on each side near base, and the ocelli ochraceous ; 

 pronotum with the lateral margins, a waved oblique linear fascia 

 on the inner margins of the lateral expansions, and two anterior 

 central spots ochraceous ; scutellum with the margins and two 



