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  Mr. 
  H. 
  E. 
  Andrewes 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  type 
  ; 
  I 
  give 
  the 
  preference 
  to 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  example 
  

   only 
  on 
  the 
  ground 
  that 
  the 
  other 
  Hardwicke 
  types 
  are 
  

   at 
  South 
  Kensington. 
  

  

  7. 
  Colpodes 
  hardwicki. 
  Chaudoir, 
  in 
  his 
  Monograph 
  

   of 
  the 
  genus 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  1859, 
  359), 
  mentions 
  

   this 
  species 
  among 
  others 
  unknown 
  to 
  him, 
  but 
  in 
  the 
  

   " 
  Revision 
  " 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  Fr. 
  1878) 
  he 
  ignores 
  it 
  

   altogether. 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  no 
  examples 
  of 
  it 
  other 
  than 
  

   the 
  type, 
  another 
  specimen, 
  labelled 
  "India" 
  in 
  the 
  

   British 
  Museum, 
  and 
  a 
  third 
  taken 
  quite 
  recently 
  at 
  

   Gopaldhara, 
  British 
  Sikkim, 
  by 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  Stevens. 
  The 
  

   following 
  is 
  a 
  description 
  :■ 
  — 
  

  

  Colpodes 
  hardwicki, 
  c^. 
  Length 
  16 
  mill. 
  Width 
  5*5 
  mill. 
  

  

  Metepistema 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  wide. 
  Tibiae 
  without 
  external 
  

   grooves. 
  Tarsi 
  without 
  grooves. 
  

  

  Dark 
  red, 
  underside 
  (including 
  epipleurae 
  of 
  elytra) 
  a 
  little 
  

   lighter 
  ; 
  disk 
  of 
  thorax 
  darker 
  ; 
  head 
  (except 
  labrum, 
  front 
  of 
  

   clypeus, 
  and 
  appendages) 
  dark 
  brown; 
  elytra 
  very 
  dark 
  brown 
  

   with 
  bright 
  green 
  reflections 
  in 
  the 
  type, 
  blue-green 
  in 
  the 
  second 
  

   example. 
  Head 
  smooth, 
  a 
  little 
  contracted 
  behind, 
  with 
  faint 
  

   frontal 
  foveae 
  and 
  a 
  furrow 
  along 
  the 
  upper 
  margin 
  of 
  tlie 
  eye, 
  

   extending 
  forwards 
  to 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  antennae 
  ; 
  joints 
  of 
  antennae 
  

   relatively 
  long, 
  1 
  three 
  times 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  2 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  3 
  ; 
  

   eyes 
  rather 
  flat. 
  

  

  Pro 
  thorax 
  one 
  -third 
  as 
  wide 
  again 
  as 
  head, 
  widest 
  before 
  middle, 
  

   strongly 
  emarginate 
  in 
  front, 
  truncate 
  behind 
  ; 
  front 
  angles 
  porrect 
  

   but 
  rounded, 
  sides 
  strongly 
  rounded 
  in 
  front, 
  then 
  straight 
  to 
  hind 
  

   angle, 
  which 
  is 
  also 
  rounded 
  and 
  obtuse; 
  disk 
  rather 
  convex, 
  

   explanate 
  at 
  sides, 
  margins 
  widely 
  reflexed 
  ; 
  a 
  fairly 
  deep 
  fovea 
  at 
  

   each 
  side 
  of 
  base 
  near 
  the 
  angles, 
  transverse 
  impressions 
  slight, 
  

   median 
  furrow 
  faint, 
  hardly 
  reaching 
  margins. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  long, 
  rather 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  as 
  wide 
  again 
  as 
  pro 
  thorax, 
  

   nearly 
  parallel, 
  shoulders 
  prominent, 
  margin 
  slightly 
  sinuate 
  behind, 
  

   apex 
  narrowly 
  trimcate, 
  but 
  without 
  any 
  spine 
  at 
  either 
  angle 
  of 
  

   truncature 
  ; 
  striae 
  shallow, 
  impunctate, 
  intervals 
  flat, 
  the 
  whole 
  

   surface 
  very 
  smooth 
  and 
  shiny; 
  interval 
  3 
  with 
  tlu"ee 
  punctures, 
  

   1 
  at 
  fifth 
  from 
  base, 
  2 
  just 
  behind 
  middle, 
  3 
  at 
  a 
  sixth 
  from 
  apex. 
  

   Underside 
  smooth, 
  with 
  some 
  shallow 
  depressions 
  at 
  sides 
  of 
  ventral 
  

   surface. 
  Legs 
  slender; 
  joint 
  4 
  of 
  tarsi 
  bilobed 
  in 
  all 
  pairs 
  of 
  legs, 
  

   the 
  external 
  lobe 
  rather 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  internal 
  one 
  in 
  the 
  inter- 
  

   mediate 
  and 
  hind 
  tarsi; 
  joint 
  5 
  without 
  setae 
  beneath; 
  front 
  

   tarsi 
  o 
  with 
  three 
  joints 
  narrowly 
  dilated, 
  biseriately 
  squamosa 
  

   beneath. 
  

  

  