CHRYSONOPA. 



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punctate-striate, punctures below shoulders deeply foveolate ; 

 humeral callus tuberculate. Legs robust ; femora fulvous at 

 base, black at apex. Prosternum subquadrate, deeply punctured. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hob. Sikhim : Mungphu. Type in Brit. Mus. 



A species of peculiar shape on account of the oblong elytra 

 narrowed at base ; also distinguished by the strong puncturation, 

 very long second joint of antennae, &c. 



Genus CHRYSONOPA, nov. 



Type, G. viridis, Jac. 



Range. India. 



Body elongate, metallic; antennae filiform; clypeus not separated 

 from the face. Thorax subquadrate, sides rounded at the middle, 

 surface convex, without depressions. Elytra wider at base than the 

 thorax, elongate, with a basal depression, punctate-striate. Legs 

 slender ; femora widened at the middle furnished with a small tooth 

 beneath, slender at base ; intermediate and posterior tibiae emar- 

 ginate at apex, tarsi with the first joint distinctly longer than the 

 second ; claws appendiculate. Prosternum subquadrate, scarcely 

 longer than broad ; anterior margin of thoracic episternum 

 concave. 



Most of the characters similar to those of the genus Nodostella, 

 Jac., but the coloration metallic, thorax convex, subquadrate, 

 without depressions, legs much more elongate and slender, femora 

 furnished with a small tooth beneath. 



626. Chrysonopa rotundicollis, Jac. (Xodo- 

 stoma) M6m. Soc. JEnt. Belg. vii, 1900, 

 p. 104. 



Black beneath, dark fulvous above ; elytra 

 with black lateral stripe ; knees and apex 

 of tibiae piceous. 



c? . Elongate. Head strongly rugose- 

 punctate; clypeus not separated from the 

 face, anterior margin deeply concave-eruar- 

 ginate ; mandibles black, robust ; antennae 

 filiform, fulvous, seventh to ninth joints 

 black, terminal joints in the type and only 

 specimen wanting, basal joint short and 

 broad, second curved and slender, nearly 

 as long as the first, third slightly longer 

 than the second, fourth much longer. 

 Thorax half as broad again as long, of 

 equal width, sides strongly rounded, surface 



Chrys<mq'rotuiidicollis. strongly rugose-punctate, anterior sulcus 

 deep. Elytra wider at base than the 



thorax, elongate, rather flattened, deeply depressed below the base; 

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Fig. 123. 



