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variety of the present species : the sole differences seem to be 

 the rather longer antennae of the latter, a somewhat more trans- 

 versely shaped thorax in which the anterior angles are entirely 

 obtuse and without traces of a tubercle and the reddish legs, the 

 femora of which have a blackish spot at their outer side, they 

 extend to the apex of the elytra and have two acute teeth below, 

 the anterior of which is the longer. In the female the teeth are 

 much smaller and the posterior tooth is more or less indistinct. 



Length 7 mm. 



Bab. Nilgiris. 



14. Donacia recticollis, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvii, 1893, p. 261 ; 

 Wytsman, Genera Insect, part 21, 1901, fig. 6. 



Fuscous, closely pubescent, antennae and legs fulvous ; thorax 

 obscure aeneous, very finely strigose ; elytra dark fulvous, strongly 

 punctate-striate, the interstices smooth, slightly convex. 



Length 8 mm, 



Hob. India : Berhampur. 



. 4. Donacia recticollis. 



This species, although closely allied to D. delesserti, may be 

 distinguished by the elongate third joint of the antennae, the 

 straight sides of the thorax and the entirely smooth elytral inter- 

 stices, also by the fulvous colouring. 



15. Donacia indica, Clark, App. Cat. Phytoph. 1866, p. 1. 



Black ; joints of the antennae flavous at the base ; thorax metallic 

 green ; elytra dark fulvous. 



Head with a median impressed line, blackish-green, non- 

 pubescent. Thorax metallic green, subquadrate, the anterior 

 angles prominent, the sides somewhat constricted towards the 

 middle, finely confluendy wrinkled, transversely rugose and with 

 a distinct fovea at the middle. Scutellum clothed with testaceous 

 pubescence. Elytra dark fulvous, truncate at the base, punctate- 



