174 CHRYSOMELID.E. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hub. India, Ceylon, Bandra (Colls. Brit. Mus. fy Jacoby). 



In the female the anterior femora and their tibiae are of normal 

 shape and the latter are straight instead of curved. 



Very closely allied to the common C. nair and very similar in 

 coloration, but I think a distinct species. The differences are as 

 follows : the eyes are much smaller, the third joint of the 

 antennae is as short as the second, not elongate and thin as in 

 C. nair, the black thoracic spots are placed much further apart, 

 the basal elytral band is placed less close to the basal margin, and 

 the anterior tibiae of the male are strongly curved. 



299. Ceratobasis opacipennis, Jac. (Gynandrophthalma) Ann. Soc. 

 Eid. Belg. xlvii, 1903, p. 86. 



Fulvous above, black beneath ; terminal joints of antenna} 

 fuscous ; elytra opaque, shoulders with a small piceous spot. 



Elongate; head impunctate, a very shallow fovea on each side 

 at middle, becoming more deep and elongate at sides of clypeus ; 

 latter broad and flat, itnpuuctaie, deeply emarginate in front; 

 labrum piceous ; antennae extending to base of thorax, basal three 

 joints flavous. Thorax twice as broad as long, slightly narrowed 

 anteriorlv, median lobe slight, rounded ; surface impunctate, 

 shining. Scutellum triangular. Elytra subcylindrical, micro- 

 scopically punctured, punctures extremely close. Anterior legs 

 and tarsi verv elongate, first joint of latter as long as the following 

 two united. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hab. Bombay; Kanara. 



The elongate legs and tarsi, distinct posterior thoracic angles 

 and the absence of elytral lobes place this species better in 

 Cera tobasis than in Gfynandrophthalma. In the original description 

 the length is erroneously given as five lines. 



Genus COPTOCEPHALA. 



Coptocephala, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 345; Lefevre, 

 Mon. Clytrina, 1871, p. 359 jj Chapuis, Gen. CoUopt. x, 1874, 

 p. 127. 



Type, C. melanocephala, Oliv., from Algiers. 



Range. Europe ; Asia ; Africa. 



d . Cylindrical ; head finely pubescent ; antennae short ; head 

 very broad, subquadrate ; labrum and clypeus broad, anterior 

 margin of the latter more or less deeply emarginate, anterior 

 angles rounded ; eyes small. Thorax of nearly equal width, 

 posterior angles rounded. Anterior legs elongate, the tibiae curved, 

 first joint of tarsi as long as following two united, lobes of the 

 third joint prolonged into a point. 



