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side by a large depression, bordering the eye. Thorax 
more than twice as broad as long; base bisinuate on 
either side, medial lobe obtusely rounded; sides rounded, 
converging in front; anterior angles acute, posterior 
nearly obsolete; disk finely punctured, impressed on 
either side at the base by a short longitudinal groove. 
Elytra much broader at the base than the thorax; 
shoulders more prominent than the former species, 
rounded; sides rounded and converging from before 
the middle to the apex, the latter conjointly rounded ; 
disk distinctly punctured. 
Genus XANTHOCYCLA. 
Corpus subrotundatum, valde convexum; caput breve, 
thorace fere immersum; carind et encarpis obsoletis ; 
oculis subprominulis, remotis, rude granulosis ; antennis 
filiformibus, 1l-articulatis. Thorax transversus. Elytra 
thorace paullo latiora, punctato-striata. Pedes: coxis 
anticis prosterno paullo altioribus, transverso-ovatis ; 
femoribus posticis valde incrassatis ; ¢éb¢is anticis quatuor 
apice muticis; ¢diis posticis brevibus, a basi ad apicem 
incrassatis, paullo remotis, dorso canaliculatis, apice spina 
valida armatis; wnguiculis appendiculatis. Prosternum 
oblongum, apice abrupte transversim dilatatum; acetabulis 
anticis vix apertis. Mesosternum parvum, metasterni apice 
occultatum. Metasternum inter mesocoxas ad prosternum 
productum. 
Type, Xanthocycla Chapuisit. 
Xanthocycla somewhat agrees with ELuphitrea in the 
structure of the meso- and meta-sterna, but differs in the 
form of the hinder tibize and in the punctate-striate elytra. 
Xanthocycla Chapuisii. 
Subrotundata, valde convexa, fulva, nitida, oculis nigris, 
capite thoraceque crebre punctatis, obsolete rugulosis; 
elytris punctato-striatis, interstitiis crebre punctatis. 
Long. 24 lin. 
Hab.—India. 
Head rather broad, short, face flat, sutural lines mark- 
ing out the epistome, ‘the carina and the encarpe entirely 
obsolete; antennz scarcely half the length of the body, 
rather slender. Thorax much more than twice as broad as 
long, basal margin oblique and bisinuate on either side, 
