54 RUTELINjE. 



Genus TROPIORRHYNCHUS. 



Tropiorrhynchus, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Paris, 1850, p. 176. 

 Dinorhina, Lacord., Gen. Col. iii, 1866, p. 325. 



TYPE, Anisoplia orientis, Newm. 



Range. Bombay. 



Body rather short, with long legs, and the under surface densely 

 clothed with decumbent pale hair. The clypeus is narrow, with 

 the sides of the posterior part rapidly converging and the anterior 

 part forming a narrow recurved rostrum, the front margin rounded 

 and slightly dilated and the middle line longitudinally carinate. 

 The eyes are rather prominent. The prothorax is narrow, with 

 the sides parallel or contracted behind, the front angles acute und 

 the base very gently rounded or feebly emarginate in the middle. 

 The scutellum is rather short. The shoulders of the elytra are 

 prominent, the membranous margins distinct and the apical angles 

 rather blunt. The mesosternum is pointed, but not produced 

 beyond the middle coxse. The pygidium is very convex. All 

 the tibiae are rather long and cylindrical (not flattened). The front 

 ones are armed with two sharp teeth and the four posterior ones 

 taper slightly towards the end and are scarcely spinose. The 

 terminal joint of each tarsus is very long, and the claws are very 

 long, slender and unequal, the longer one of the front feet only 

 in T. orientis, and of the front and middle feet of T. podagricus, 

 minutely cleft at the tip. 



c? . The body is narrower, the prothorax longer, the legs are very 

 long and stout, and the larger hind claw has an internal flange. 



This is a modified form of the common Palsearctic genus Anisofilia. 



Although the two known species of Tropiorrhynchus are closely 

 similar, they are distinguished by considerable structural differ- 

 ences. The generic diagnosis of Blanchard applies only to 

 T. orientis, Newm., although he included T. podagricus, Burin., by 

 name and gave characters supposed to be those of its female, but 

 really of a variety of T. orientis. 



Key to the Species. 



Mesosternnm produced ; hind trochanters 

 simple; pronotum entirely hairy, broad 

 at the base ; longer claw of the front foot 

 cleft orientis, Newm. 



Mesosternum not produced ; hind trochan- 

 ters spinose ; pronotuin narrowed at 

 the base, decorated with patches of 

 hairs; longer claws of the front and 

 middle feet cleft podagricus, Burm. 



23. Tropiorrhynchus orientis. (Plate I. fig. 2.) 



Anisoplia orientis, Newm.,* Entom. Mag. v, 1888, p. 384 ; Burm., 

 Handb. Eat. iv, 1, 1844, p. 226. 



Metallic green or testaceous with a metallic suffusion, the head 

 and tarsi darker, the femora and tibiae orange. The elytra are 



