TYPODRYA8. 



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In the length of the prothorax, first antennal joint, and hind 

 femora, this species very closely approaches the genus Typodryas. 

 Length 22 ; breadth 4| mm. 

 Hal. Nilgiri Hills (H. L. Andrewes). 



Genus TYPODRYAS. 



Typodryas, Thorns. Syst. Ceramb. p. 227 (1864) ; Lacord. Gen. 



Co-opt, ix, p. 228 (1869). 

 Psalanta, Pascoe, Trails. Ent. Soc. (3) iii, p. 658 (1869). 



Type, T. callichromoides, Thorns. 



Range. Assam, Malay Peninsula, Java, and Borneo. 



The species of this genus have a characteristic metallic-blue or 

 green colour, but differ only very slightly in structure from those 

 of Distenia. The prothorax is one-third longer than broad, and 

 is transversely striated near the base and apex and to a less degree 

 near the sides ; the femora are longer, more slender and cylin- 

 drical than in Distenia, the hind pair of the male reaching a little 

 beyond the apex of the elytra in most of the species. 



60. Typodryas callichromoides, Thorns. Syst. Ceramb. p. 227 (1864). 



Of a metallic-green or blue colour, the elytra with a sutural 

 band of a different tint usually violaceous or blue. Head 

 transversely rugulose above behind the eyes, impressed on the 

 vertex with a median line. Antennae 

 twice as long as the body in the 

 male, less than twice as long in the 

 female, the long hairs with which 

 they are furnished beneath some- 

 times to be seen freely projecting, 

 especially in the female. Prothorax 

 rather strongly constricted and broadly 

 grooved near the apex, marked with 

 a sinuate groove near the base, 

 finely striated transversely in front of 

 the anterior groove and behind the 

 posterior groove, the disc slightly 

 depressed in the middle, feebly raised 

 and transversely wrinkled towards the 

 sides. Elytra cut away obliquely at 

 the apex, each being more prolonged 

 and rather strongly spined at the 

 outer angle and feebly dentate at the 

 suture ; each has two raised dorsal 

 lines not extending to the apex, the 



outer line more distinct, marked with two rows of strong closely 

 placed punctures between the two lines, two rows between 

 the inner line and the suture and another row external to the 

 outer line ; the side in its anterior half is densely and less 



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Fig. 25. Typodryas 

 tallichromoides, Thorns., 



