and Asiatic Species of Laius. 327 
somewhat concave, produced inwards into a sharp curved 
tooth at the base, and subangulate at the outer apical 
angle (Pl. VIII. fig. 5), 3-10 longer than broad. Prothorax 
convex, scarcely as long as broad, rounded at the 
sides anteriorly and strongly constricted before the base, 
the basal portion narrow, the arcuate basal groove rather 
deep. Elytra comparatively short, in the broadest part twice 
the width of the prothorax, rounded at the tip. 
Length 24 mm. 
Hab. Invta, Nilgiri Hills (H. EH. Andrewes). 
One male. Separable from L. testaceiceps, Pic (1912), 
and other Indian forms with wholly metallic elytra, by the 
black legs and the peculiarly-shaped second antennal joint 
(3), which is produced inwards into a curved tooth at the 
base, leaving the short connecting-node exposed. This 
structure is not unlike that of Z. jucundus, 3, as figured by 
Bourgeois and myself. 
6. Laius nodifrons, sp. n. 
9. Short, rather convex, much widened posteriorly, 
shining, somewhat thickly cinereo-pubescent ; head (the 
eyes excepted), palpi, antennz, prothorax, and legs (the 
partly black intermediate and posterior femora excepted) 
testaceous or rufo-testaceous, the scutellum and under 
surface black, the elytra blue; the head and prothorax 
closely (the disc of the latter very sparsely), minutely, the 
elytra densely, rather strongly, punctured. Head not so 
wide as the prothorax, longitudinally impressed in the 
middle between the eyes, the latter not prominent; antennz 
with joints 1 and 2 thickened, 1 curved, much longer than 
2, 8-9 short. Prothorax transverse, convex, rounded at the 
sides, much narrowed behind, the sides sinuous towards the 
base. Elytra short, dilated and convex posteriorly, rounded 
atthe tip. Wings ample. 
&. Head as broad as the prothorax, depressed on each side 
(the eyes thus appearing prominent and subpedunculate) 
and deeply sulcate down the middle anteriorly, the groove 
bordered laterally by a tumid space ; antennal joint 1 stout, 
curved, subangulate at the outer apical angle, 2 extremely 
large, broad, somewhat trumpet-shaped, the oblique fold near 
the base bearing a very slender, curled appendage at the 
inner basal angle (PI. VIII. fig. 6), 3-9 scarcely longer than 
broad. 
Length 3-34 mm. (¢ 2.) 
Hab. Inpta, W. Almora and Ranikhet Divisions of 
Kumaon (/. G. C.). 
