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Genus Buruonrpa. 
Corpus elongatum, modice convexum. Caput exsertum, supra 
tumidum ; facie brevi, perpendiculari; antennis gracilibus, fili- 
formibus, articulo 3tio quarto breviori; ocudis prominulis, in- 
tegris. Thorax transversus, dorso plus minusve transversim 
excavatus. Scutellum trigonum. £lytrathorace latiora, apicem 
versus paullo ampliata, apice rotundata, modice convexa, dorso 
plus minusve deplanata, irregulariter punctata, pube adpressa 
brevi vestita, limbo inflexo obliquo, ante medium desinente, 
interdum obsoleto. Pedes graciles ; coxis anticis erectis, con- 
tiguis ; femoribus posticis non incrassatis ; f2biis omnibus apice 
muticis ; wnguiculis bifidis, aut acute appendiculatis. 
Type Buphonida evanida. 
The swollen head separates this genus from Galleruca, next 
to which it must be placed. 
Buphonida evanida. 
Elongata, convexa, fusco-fulva, nitida; oculis nigris; elytris 
crebre punctatis, pallide rufo-violaceis, metallico vix tinctis, 
limbo laterali vittaque suturali, hac postice abbreviataé, me- 
tallico-czeruleis. 
Long. 4 lin. 
Hab. Southern India. 
Head strongly exserted, smooth and shining, glabrous, finely 
but somewhat distantly punctured, the whole impressed with a 
fine longitudinal groove, which extends from the front edge of 
the epistome backwards to the neck; epistome and _ facial 
plates transverse; eyes black; antenne two-thirds the length 
of the body. Thorax short, three times-as broad as long, surface 
glabrous, impunctate on the disc, sides finely but not closely 
punctured; on either side is a deep transverse groove. Elytra 
much broader than the thorax, nearly five times its length, sides 
distinctly dilated posteriorly; closely punctured, clothed with 
adpressed fulvo-fuscous hairs. 
Genus Acertocrra, Hope. 
A getocera lobicornis. 
Subelongata, robusta, convexa, pallide rufo-fulva, nitida; an- 
tennis flavis; genubus, tibiis, tarsis elytrisque nigris. 
Mas.—Antennarum articulis 24 ad 8"™ brevibus, 9"° elon- 
gato, valde incrassato, extus leviter excavato, apice extus in 
