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to the fourth and fifth united, these subequal ; sixth to tenth 

 gradually shorter, compressed and dilated, produced each into a 

 short angular process at the apex on the anterior side, eleventh 

 scarcely longer than the tenth. Prothorax armed with an obtuse 

 conical tubercle at the middle of each side. Elytra moderately 

 long, more or less parallel-sided, rounded at the apex. Hind legs 

 much longer than the middle pair, and these a little longer than 

 the front legs ; femora distinctly but not abruptly clavate, sub- 

 pedunculate at the base, the hind pair reach almost to the apex of 

 the elytra; hind tibia3 compressed, slightly dilated towards the 

 apex ; first joint of the hind tarsi a little longer, sometimes 

 shorter, than the next two joints united. Abdomen narrowed 

 posteriorly, rounded at the apex of the last ventral segment. 

 Acetabula of front coxae narrowly open posteriorly. 



Pascoe, in describing this genus, stated that the unique type 

 specimen of /. femorata appeared to him to be a male. In this he 

 was mistaken. The type is undoubtedly a female, as is also the 

 unique type specimen of /. pyrrJia, Pasc. Lacordaire knew only 

 the first of these two species, and appears to have shared Pascoe's 

 mistake in regard to the sex, since the characters given by him for 

 the male are really applicable to the female. 



250. Ipothalia pyrrha, Pascoe, A. M. N. H. (3) xix, p. 314 (1867). 



$ . Dark blue and subnitid; with the elytra somewhat greenish, 

 very densely rugulose-punctate and dull, except near the apex 

 where they are smoother, subnitid, and slightly bluish in colour ; 

 the legs entirely ferruginous red ; the antennae with the first two 

 joints violaceous, the third to fifth and the sixth in part ferru- 

 ginous, the rest bluish, more or less covered with dark brown 

 pubescence ; body beneath covered slightly 

 with grey pubescence except on the fore- 

 part of the prosternum and on the last four 

 abdominal segments, these four glabrous, 

 nitid, and very sparsely punctulate. Head 

 finely and rather sparsely punctulate in 

 front, slightly rugulose above between the 

 antennae and the eyes, coarsely punctate 

 just behind the eyes, rather strongly strigose 

 at the sides and on the gular area beneath. 

 Antennae barely reach to the middle of the 

 elytra ; first joint rather densely punctulate, 



I P othall l pirrka,T* SC . this and the third to fifth or sixth sub- 



x f. glabrous, the rest more or less pubescent. 



Prothorax striated transversely near the 



front margin, and with a few transverse striae also near the base; 

 the disc transversely rugulose and punctate, with a narrow smooth 

 band along the middle and a narrower transverse one in front. 

 Elytra narrowed slightly from the base to the middle and slightly 



