210 CEKA.MBTCID.E. 



a bisinuate posterior edge, which is raised so as to form an 

 oblique tubercle near each side. Elytra somewhat less than three 

 times as long as their width across the base ; rounded at the apex. 

 Body beneath covered faintly with silky pubescence of a fulvous- 

 brown colour. Prosternum densely punctulate on the anterior 

 part in the c? ; iutercoxal process rather narrow in the middle, 

 dilated posteriorly so as to meet the epimera. Fifth abdominal 

 segment of the d 1 deeply emarginate. 



Length 45-47 ; breadth 12 mm. 



Hab. Assam. 



232. Aphrodisium rubripennis, Hope (Purpuricenus), Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xix, 2, p. 110, pi. 10, tig. 6 (1843). 



Violaceous blue ; densely covered on the vertex of the head and 

 on the pronotum with short velvety black tomentum ; elytra 

 fulvous red, covered with very short pubescence of nearly the 

 same colour, each marked with a more or less large violaceous- 

 black spot in front of the middle ; the spot irregular in form and 

 variable in size, reaches, when at its maximum, almost to the 

 outer margin and to the suture as well as extends posteriorly a little 

 past the middle. Head glabrous, and rather densely puncfculate 

 in front. Antennae extended by their last two joints past the 

 apex of the elytra in the J , shorter than the body in the 2 ; fi rst 

 joint glabrous above, minutely and densely punctulate, sharply 

 angulate, but not dentate, at the apex ; third joint at the apex 

 and the succeeding joints entirely covered with short dull black 

 pubescence. Disc of prothorax slightly depressed on each side across 

 the middle, with a slight transverse ridge on each side in front, 

 and a more strongly raised ridge on each side behind ; it has a 

 smooth line along the middle, impressed in its anterior half and 

 slightly raised and widened behind. Elytra separately and some- 

 what obtusely rounded at the apex. Body beneath with a covering 

 of fine silky pubescence, tawny brown in colour on the breast and 

 silver-grey on the abdomen. Intercoxal process of prosternum 

 very slightly dilated posteriorly, the acetabula in consequence 

 rather widely open. Femora finely and not very densely punctate. 

 Fifth and sixth abdominal segments of the c? rather deeply emar- 

 ginate at the apex, the sixth more narrowly and deeply so. 

 Length 25-32 ; breadth 6|-8 mm. ' 

 Bab. Assam : Sylhet, Shillong ; Manipur (Dohertii). 



Genus CHELIDONIUM. 



Chelidonium, Thomson, Syst. Ceramb. p. 175 (1864). 

 Leontium, Lacord. (nee Thomson) Gtn. Co-opt, ix, p. 19 



Type, C. argentatum, Dalm. 

 Range. India, China, and Burma. 



