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the posterior ones with a short spine, their metatarsus as long as 

 the following joints together, claws appendiculate, prosternum 

 invisible between the coxae; mesosternum oblong, the anterior 

 coxal cavities closed. 



More nearly allied to the Australian genus Arsipoda Ihan to auy 

 other, in which the anterior coxal cavities are closed, but the thorax 

 still much more transverse in shape and devoiJ of the basai perpen- 

 dicular grooves, the tibioe not sulcate and the proslernum not 

 visible, the antennœ more distantly placed and at the base of the eyes 

 than in most other gênera of Halticidœ. 



PANILURUS NILGIRIENSIS sp. n. 



Metallic dark blue below, above green or blue, the basai joints of 

 the antennse and the tibiœ fulvous, apical joints and the posterior 

 temora black, thorax impunctate, elytra finely semipunctate-striate. 



Length 3 mill. 



Head impunctate, metallic blue or green, without frontal élévations, 

 clypeus broad between the anteneœ, the anterior edge of the portion 

 of the face, dividing it, bilobed, labrum fulvous, apical joint of the 

 palpi àcute, conical, antennse extending beyond the base of the elytra 

 only, robust, the joints short, the lower four joints fulvous, the 

 rest black, the third and following joints nearly equal, somewhat 

 triangular, terminal joints gradually thickened, thorax more than 

 twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, the angles not 

 produced, the basai margin rounded, the surface impunctate, 

 scutellum very broad, triangular, dark blue, elytra slightly widened 

 towards the apex, not broader than the thorax al the base, the 

 latter with a very shallow dépression, finely punctured in rather 

 closely approached rows, tibise fulvous, tarsi rather darker. 



Nilgiri Hills. 



GALERUCIN^. 



OIDES KANARAENSIS sp. n. 



Teslaceous, the breast black, thorax and elytra extremely minu- 

 tely punctured, the latter with a small black spot at the sides. 



Var. Elytra enlirely testaceous. 



Length 9-10 mill. 



Ovate, very convex, the head with a longitudinal groove at the 

 vertex, impunctate, clypeus convex, triangular, antennce flavous, 

 the second joint shorter than the third, thorax three limes broader 

 than long, the sides rounded, the surface microscopically punc- 

 tured, elytra wider than the thorax, the shoulders very prorainent, 



