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501 . Holopyga indica, Mocsdry, Mon. Chrys. 1889, p. 118, $ . 



$ . Dark metallic green with blue shades in certain lights, in 

 gome specimens the mesonotum and abdomen almost entirely 

 metallic blue ; antennae black, the scape in front purple or green 

 according to the light ; legs green, larsi light brown ; head and 

 pronotum moderately finely but irregularly punctate ; mesonotum, 

 scutellum and postscutellum very coarsely punctured, cribrate, 

 the punctures with minute punctures within and in the inter- 

 spaces ; abdomen finely and densely punctured, the punctures even 

 and regular on the basal two segments, larger on the apical seg- 

 ment ; facial cavity finely transversely and somewhat obliquely 

 striate, without pubescence obscuring the sculpture ; pilosity very 

 sparse, pubescence fine, almost invisible. Head broad but short, 

 about half as long as the pronotum, from the front subtriangular, 



Fig. 149. Holopyga indica, 5 Outline of head in profile ; 

 b. Tarsus and claws. 



the cheeks strongly convergent, the eyes large ; clypeus broad, 

 smooth, almost unpunctured, strongly emarginate in the middle 

 anteriorly ; facial cavity very shallow, not margined above ; antennae 

 slender, the 2nd joint of the flagellum very long, more than twice 

 as long as the 1st ; front somewhat flat, vertex convex, occiput 

 sharply transverse, very widely but very distinctly emarginate ; 

 the temples strongly triangularly produced posteriorly. Thorax : 

 the pronotum convex, transversely subrectangular, the sides some- 

 what convergent anteriorly, the anterior margin narrowly de- 

 pressed ; propleurae deeply excavate ; mesonotum, scutellum and 

 postscutellum convex ; the mesopleurse very large, flat, shaped 

 somewhat like the apical half of a lanceolate leaf, margined, the 

 apex acute ; the posterior lateral angles of the median segment 

 broadly produced and acute at apex ; wings slightly fusco-hyaline, 

 iridescent, nervures and tegulaa brow~n. Abdomen short, broad, 

 strongly convex above, sharply transverse at base, the apex rounded, 

 the margin entire. 



c? . Almost identical, smaller, the puncturing somewhat coarser, 

 especially on the 3rd abdominal segment ; the pronotum shorter, 

 the abdomen proportionately not so broad. 

 Letigth, $ Q-Q-o,exp. 12 ; J 5, exp. 10 mm. 

 Hob. India Orientalis (apud Mocsdry) ; Delhi (Bin;f7xnn) : Eaj- 

 putana, Mount Abu (Nurse). The specimens from Mount Abu 

 are more blue than green. 



