410 CHEYSOMELLD^E. 



like the latter, closely covered with yellow pubescence. Legs 

 fulvous. Body beneath black, clothed with silvery pubescence. , ' 



Length 3^-4 mm. 



Hab. Southern India ; Nilgiris (H. L. Andrewes). 



Closely allied to X.pallidus, but distinguished by the very finely 

 and closely punctured thorax, longer antennae, and the entirely 

 black underside ; these differences are constant in all the specimens 

 obtained by Mr. Andrewes. 



Genus AULEXIS. 



Aulexis, Bah/, Jonrn. Ent. ii, 1863, p. 153 ; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 

 1867, p. 81 ; Chapuis, Gen. Cottopt. x, 1874, p. 276 ; Lefiv. Cat. 

 Eumolp. 1885, p. 76. 



Type, A. nigrieollis, Baly, from Borneo. 



Mange. India ; China ; Malayan Subregion. 



Elongate, subcylindrical ; clothed above and beneath with 

 suberect hairs. 



Head exserted, perpendicular ; anterior margin of clypeus 

 with two acute flattened teeth, which partly cover the upper 

 surface of the labrum ; antennae subfiliform, clothed with coarse 

 hairs, basal joint incrassate, second half the length of the first, 

 subincrassate, third shorter than the fourth, following joints 

 rather shorter ; eyes with their inner margins slightly sinuate ; 



Fig. 142. Aulexis nigripennis. 



terminal joint of palpi slender, ovate. Thorax subcylindrical in 

 front, flattened, more or less excavated on the hinder half of the 

 disc, lateral border obsolete, rarely visible at the base, its place 

 supplied in the middle by two or more teeth. Elytra rather broader 

 than the thorax, parallel-sided. Legs moderate, stout ; femora 

 unarmed ; basal joint of tarsi as long as the following two united ; 

 claws more or less bifid. Prosternum greatly narrowed between 

 the coxae. 



A well-marked genus on account of the toothed clypeus and 

 similarly armed sides of the thorax. 



