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rather strongly punctate-striate ; interstices flat, with a few 



Fig. 128. Edistiis indicus. 



scattered minute punctures. Legs piceous ; anterior margin of 

 thoracic episternum concave. 



Length 2 in in. 



Hab. Southern India : Nilgiris. 



Group COLASPINI. 



More or less oblong or elongate ; head prominent ; antenna) 

 slender, filiform. Thorax transverse, sides more or less dentate 

 or distinctly angulate. Prosternum oblong, base truncate ; anterior 

 margin of thoracic episternum concave. Legs slender, femora 

 unarmed, tibiae entire ; claws appendiculate. 



Metallic species often brilliantly coloured and ornamented with 

 purplish markings ; principally distinguished by the dentate or 

 angulate sides of the thorax, but resembling in shape Chrysolampra, 

 from which they can be readily separated by the non-incrassate 

 anterior femora. 



Genus DERMORHYTIS. 



Dermorhytis, Baly, Journ. Ent. i, 1861, p. 282; Chapuis, Gen. 

 Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 252 ; Lefev. Cat. Eumolp. 1885, p. 48. 



Type, D. igneo-fasciata, Baly, from Ceylon. 



Range. India ; 'Ceylon ; Borneo. 



Elongate, subcyclindrical. Eyes feebly emarginate ; antennae 

 slender, filiform, third joint more than double as long as the 

 second. Thorax transverse, sides more or less angulate. Scutellum 

 somewhat ovate. Elytra oblong, parallel-sided, sides generally 

 transversely rugose. Legs rather robust, femora unarmed, tibia? 



