106 CHRTSOMELID^E. 



Head smooth, very shining, with a feeble depression on the 

 vertex, some longitudinal ridges near the inner borders of the 

 eyes ; clypeus emarginate ; antennae black, extending slightly 

 below the base of the thorax, hasal four joints fulvous, apical 

 seven transverse. Thorax extremely short, at least three times as 

 broad as long, feebly rouuded at the sides, smooth with the excep- 

 tion of some small punctures near the base. Scutellum large, 

 smooth, triangular. Elytra very slightly dilated posteriorly, mode- 

 rately convex, very shining, very deeply and closely punctured, 

 the puncturation regularly arranged with the interstices subconvex 

 near the suture. Beneath finely pubescent. $ with a fovea on 

 the last abdominal segment. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hob. Sikhim : Kurseong. 



Differs from G. dohertyi, Jac., in being much shorter and 

 smaller and in the strongly transverse thorax and elytral punc- 

 turation. 



188. Gynandrophthalma caerulea, Jac. (Diapromorpha) Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Genova, xxxii, 1892, p. 877. 



Beneath fulvous ; antennae (basal joints excepted), breast and 

 tarsi black; above metallic blue ; legs fulvous. 



Elongate and subc-ylindrical ; vertex of head swollen, impunctate, 

 lower part of face flattened, finely punctured, separated from 

 vertex by a well-marked transverse groove ; labrum and palpi 

 piceous ; base of mandibles fulvous ; antennae black, not quite 

 extending to base of thorax, basal three joints fulvous, basal joint 

 subquadrate, second rounded, short, third very small, fourth and 

 following joints transversely widened. Thorax rather more than 

 twice as broad as long, sides moderately rounded and narrowed in 

 front, very finely margined, posterior angles distinct ; surface 

 obliquely depressed near latter, impunctate at disc, the depressions 

 finely punctured ; median lobe rounded, gradually but not strongly 

 produced. Scutellum triangular, pointed. Elytra with moderately 

 strong epipleural lobes, finely and closely punctured ; pygidium 

 free, finely pubescent, bluish. Beneath finely pubescent ; tibiae 

 darkened at apex. First joint of posterior tarsi longer than the 

 second. 



Length 7 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Karennee. 



This species is better placed in Gynandrophilialma than in 

 Diapromorpha, as it much resembles in size and colour G. togooisis, 

 Jac., from Africa, but, besides structural differences, the underside 

 and legs in that species are different in colour. It is the largest 

 and most elongate of the Indian species. 



