PHYODEXIA. 



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199. Phyodexia concinna, Pascoe, A. M. N. H. (4) viii, p. 273, pi. 13, 

 fig. -2 (1871). 



Black, with the elytra steel-blue varying to violet, and the legs 

 and basal joints of the antennae reddish, 

 furnished above and below with some 

 sparsely scattered long erect hairs. Head 

 closely punctured above between and 

 around the eyes, less closely on its hinder 

 part. Second joint of antennae with a 

 long narrow tuft of hairs on one side, 

 third with a similar tuft at the apex, 

 fourth, fifth and sixth almost completely 

 surrounded with brushes of black hair, 

 seventh and eighth joints angulate at the 

 apex in front. Prothorax strongly and 

 very closely punctured, except on the 

 thickened front edge of the anterior trans- 

 verse groove. Elytra less strongly and 

 less closely punctured ; sparsely pubes- 

 cent. Body beneath distinctly but not 

 closely punctured, sparsely pubescent ; 

 episterna of metathorax marked each with 

 Fig. 72. a small deep pit (in all probability a scent- 



Phyodexia concinna, Pasc. pore) near its hinder end. 



x i- Length 14-15 ; breadth 4 mm. 



Bab. Himalayas : Mussooree, Darjee- 



ling, Bhutan ; Assam : Patkai Mts. (Doherty) ; Upper Burma : 



Maymyo (Col. Binghani). 



Group PURPURICENINI. 



Head moderately exserted ; eyes finely facetted, broadly and 

 deeply emarginate ; antennal supports emarginate ; front vertical 

 or inclined. Antennae much longer as a rule than the body in the 

 cJ , shorter than the body in the $ , in this sex often thickened 

 towards the apex. Prothorax generally tuberculate at the sides. 

 Scutelluin rather long, triangular, acute at apex. Front coxae 

 globular, not angulate on the outer side, their acetabula open 

 posteriorly. Acetabula of middle coxae extended to epiuiera. 

 Metathorax with scent-pores. Wings with vein Cu 1 usually 

 simple, Cu 2 absent. 



Several genera, mostly American, belong to this group. Two 

 only are included iu the Indian fauna. 



