300 CHBYSOMELID^E. 



or spots within depression and a broad transverse band, consisting 

 of united elongate spots, at middle, another elongate spot near 

 apex. Legs flavous, knees black. 



Fig. 114. Nodostetta elongata (var.). 



Var. Thorax obscure dark fulvous with an irregular piceous 

 transverse band; elvtra flavous, with two piceous spots at base and 

 two behind the middle. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. Nilgiris. 



Genus AUTOLAMPRA, n. nom. 

 Nephus, Jacoby, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 1889, p. 165. 



Body oblong; antennae filiform. Thorax transverse, sides 

 rounded. Elytra closely and somewhat regularly punctured. 

 Posterior tibiae emarginate near apex ; claws appendiculate. Pro- 

 sternum broad, slightly longer than broad. Anterior margin of 

 thoracic episternum concave. 



c? (?). Posterior femora ciliate beneath, furnished with a long 

 : and broad appendage. 



Touuded on a single species, possessing most of the characters 

 of Nodostoma, but the posterior tibiae emarginate only, and the 

 emargination placed on the inner, not on the outer, side ; the 

 posterior femora with a curious appendage, probably only a male 

 character. The generic name Nephus having already been used 

 in Coleoptera, I now change it as above. - ; : j 



516. Antolampra femorata, Jac. (Nephus) Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 

 xxvii, 1889, p. 166. 



Beneath piceous ; sides of breast and femora metallic green ; 

 antennae black, basal joints fulvous ; head and thorax cupreous ; 

 elytra metallic dark blue. 



