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fere aequali, tibiae apici inserto ; unguiculis appendiculatis. Pro- 

 sternum angustum. 



Type, Xuthea orient alls. 



This genus resembles Diplaulaca in the form of its thorax, 

 Crepidodera in the form and punctuation of its elytra ; from the 

 latter it is separated by all the tibia; having a short spine at 

 their apex, from the former by the entirely different shape and 

 punctuation of the elytra. 



Xuthea orientalis. 



X. elongato-ovata, convexa, supra viridi-cyanea, nitida, subtus ob- 

 scure viridi- aut piceo-amea ; coxis, tibiis tarsisque piceis, plus 

 minusve seneo tinctis ; thorace fortiter subremote punctato ; 

 elytris nitidis <$ , minute granulosis, subnitidis $ , regulariter punc- 

 tato-striatis ; antennis fulvis, extrorsum piceis. 



Long. 3-3 \ lin. 



Hub. India. 



Head exserted, face triangular ; mouth pale piceous ; space 

 between the eyes rugose ; carina moderately elevated, not very 

 broad ; encarpas ill defined, remote ; face separated from the 

 front by a deep fiexuose groove which runs obliquely upwards 

 on either side from the apex of the carina; vertex obsoletely 

 wrinkled in front, very remotely impressed with large punc- 

 tures ; whole face clothed with coarse, depressed, whitish hairs. 

 Thorax one-half as broad as long ; sides straight and parallel, 

 slightly converging and sinuate in front ; surface nitidous, 

 strongly but subremotely punctured, all the angles slightly pro- 

 duced, acute, the anterior somewhat reflexed. Elytra smooth 

 and nitidous in the 6 , subnitidous and very minutely granulose 

 in the $ , regularly punctate-striate, interspaces plane ; basilar 

 space in each elytron bounded by a semicircular depression. 

 Body beneath clothed with coarse, adpressed, whitish hairs. 

 Basal joints of all the tarsi in the 6 dilated, the middle elevated 

 into a longitudinal ridge. 



Subfam. Gallerucin^e. 



Genus Cynorta. 



Corpus elongatum, angustum, parallelum. Caput exsertum ; 

 facie subelongata, plana, subporrecta, inter antennarum insertiones 

 elevata ; mandibulis sat robustis, antrorsum productis ; antennis graci- 

 libus, filiformibus, corporis longitudini fere eequalibus, articulo primo 

 elongato, paullo curvato, a basi ad apicem incrassato, secundo bre- 

 vissimo, obovato, cseteris fere sequalibus, singulis primo brevioribus, 

 quarto tertio paullo longiore ; pa/pis maxillaribus apice ovatis ; 

 oculis prominentibus. Thorax transverso-quadratus, lateribus an- 

 guste marginatis, fere parallelis ; disco modicc convexo, profunde 



