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Genus JETHEOMORPHA. 



^Etheomorpha, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 311 ; C'hapms, 

 Gen. Co-opt, x, 1874, p. 123. 



Type, 2E. nematoides, Lacord., from Africa. 



Range. Africa, India, and Australia. 



Of variable shape, sometimes cylindrical, sometimes subovate. 



Head small, very short, smooth, perpendicular ; mandibles very 

 short ; eyes rather small, not pubescent near margin ; antennae 

 more or less robust, second and third joints short, subconical, 

 following joints triangular. Thorax variable, posterior angles 

 generally distinct. Scutellum large. Elytra more or less strongly 

 lobed at sides. Legs feeble, tarsi short, the first joint longer than 

 the second, third small, fourth slender. Pygidium exposed. 



Very closely allied to Gynandrophihalma ; the antennae more 

 robust ; the elytra with more or less distinct epipleural lobes and 

 shorter tarsi, the pygidium not covered by elytra. The genus is 

 also closely allied to Aspidoloplia and Peploptera ; the species are 

 however, variable in appearance and shape generally ; the thorax 

 especially varies greatly. The species of .dStlieomorplia are not 

 generically well defined but represent rather transitional forms. 



Elytra punctate-striate. 

 221. JEtheomorpha fallax, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 314. 



" 3 . Entirely flavous, short and oblong ; head smooth, with 

 three foveze placed triangularly between the eyes ; clypeus feebly 

 emarginate ; eyes large, nearly entire ; antennao fulvous, rather 

 longer than the thorax. Thorax more than twice as broad as long, 

 subcylindrical, sides straight, posterior angles strongly rounded, 

 scarcely lobed at middle, very smooth and impunctate. Scutellum 

 large, triangular. Elytra rather strongly lobed at the sides, with 

 ten rows of deep punctures, entirely obsolete near apex, another 

 short row near suture at base. Legs short and slender like the 

 tarsi." (Lacordaire.) 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. India, (Lacord.). Malabar Coast : Mahe (Coll. Jacoby}. 



Lacordaire gives the shape of the female as short and slightly 

 narrowed posteriorly ; my specimens, which agree in all other 

 respects with the type, are more elongate and posteriorly widened ; 

 the antenna) do not extend to the base of the thorax. The species 

 may be known principally by the strong and regularly punctate- 

 striate elytra, impunctate thorax, and unicolorous upper- and 

 underside. 



