AGLAOPIIIS. 



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and occasionally disappears altogether. Body beneath black, more 

 or less densely covered with yellow pubescence ; legs and anteniue 

 black, thinly covered with grey pubescence. The antennae reach 

 to the apical fourth of the elytra in the , to the apex or slightly 

 beyond it in the J ; third joint with a short spine at the apex, the 

 fourth also but less distinctly spined. Elytra truncate at the 

 apex, dentate at the outer angles. The hind femora reach almost 

 to the apex of the elytra in the $ , quite to the apex in the tf . 

 First joint of hind tarsus a little longer than the second and third 

 united. 



Length 8-10 ; breadth 2-2| mm. 



Hob. Southern India : Madura and Kodaikanel Mts. 



Genus AGLAOPHIS. 



Aglaophis, Thorns. Archiv. JEnt. i, p. 315 (1857) ; Lacord. Gen. 



CoUopt. ix, p. 86 (1869). 

 Epodus, Chevr. Mem. Soc. R. Set. de Liege, xviii, p. 335 (1863) ; 



Lacord. 1. c. p. 85. 



Type, A. faseiata, Thorns. 

 Range. Northern India, Burma and Java. 



Resembles Oligoenopl'iis, Chevr., in the form and structure of the 

 head and prothorax. Antennae longer than the body in the tf , 

 shorter in the $ ; third and fourth joints either unarmed or obso- 

 letely spiued at the apex. Elytra subvertically deflexed at the sides, 

 strongly sloped posteriorly ; the shoulders prominent, cai-inate ; 

 the apices truncate, strongly spined at the outer angle ; the 

 epipleures slightly widened posteriorly, with the upper edge sharp 

 and prominent ; each elytron with a short 

 ^\^:^/,? dorsal crest or tubercle near the base. Epi- 



('~* J ' N ) sterna of metathorax narrow, parallel-sided. 



Hind femora shorter than the abdomen. 

 First joint of hind tarsi scarcely longer or 

 not longer than the second and third united. 

 This genus is very closely allied to the 

 Palaearctic genus Anaglyptus, Muls, 



373. Aglaophis humerosus, Chevr. (Epodus) 

 Mem. Soc. R. Sci. Liege, xviii, p. 336 

 (1863). 



Black ; head and prothorax covered with 

 grey pubescence, the prothorax with a 

 white border at the base ; scutellum white ; 

 elytra black and subnitid, with the sutural 

 border from the base to the middle and 

 three transverse bands covered with white 

 pubescence one band at less than one- 

 fourth from the base, the second at the 

 middle, and the third at less than one- fourth from the apex ; the 



Fig. 98. 



Aglaoplris humerosus, 

 Chevr. X f. 



