CLEOPOBUS. 481 



830. Cleoporus lefevrei, Duciv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvi, 1892, 

 p. 414. 



Black with slight aeneous gloss beneath; head, antennas and 

 legs fulvous ; thorax and elytra greenish-aeneous. 



Head impunctate, vertex darker ; supraocular sulci broad and 

 deep ; clypeus separated from the face by a transverse groove, 

 emarginate anteriorly ; palpi fulvous ; antennae with the apical 

 joints fuscous. Thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, narrowed 

 in front, anterior angles deflexed, posterior angles acute, sides 

 feebly rounded ; surface moderately convex, obsoletely punctured. 

 Scutellum smooth. Elytra wider at the base than the thorax, 

 moderately convex, narrowly margined at the sides, regularly 

 punctate-striate ; interstices flat, very finely punctured anteriorly. 



Lenyth 3| mm. 



Hob. Bengal : Mandar. 



Easily distinguished by the bronze-coloured upper surface and 

 fulvous legs. 



831. Cleoporus plagiatus, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxxii, 1892, 

 p. 915. 



Above fulvous ; thorax with two black spots ; elytra strongly 

 punctate-striate, the suture, a spot at the base and two spots 

 placed transversely behind the middle, black. 



Head impunctate, with the exception of the broadly sulcate 

 space in front of the eyes which is finely impressed with elongate 

 punctures, the vertex with a central longitudinal ridge, colour 

 dark brown, shining ; clypeus separated from the face by a deep 

 transverse groove, its surface impunctate ; antennas fulvous, 

 extending to about half the length of the elytra, filiform, the 

 terminal joints slightly thickened, stained with fuscous at the 

 apex, the third and following two joints slender, equal. Thorax 

 half as broad again as long, convex, the sides straight, the 

 anterior angles prominent and acute, the surface sparingly 

 punctured on the disc, the sides nearly impunctate ; dark fulvous 

 with two obscure piceous spots in the middle. Scutellum fulvous. 

 Elytra fulvous, slightly wider at the base than the thorax, 

 subcylindrical, without basal depression, strongly and regularly 

 punctate-striate ; the sutural and lateral margins, a round spot at 

 the base and two more elongate spots, placed transversely behind 

 the middle, piceous ; all the punctures also surrounded by 

 piceous spots. Underside black, shining. Prosternum sub- 

 quadrate, punctate. The anterior margin of the thoracic epi- 

 sternum convex. Femora with a very small tooth ; the posterior 

 four tibiae emarginate at their apices ; claws bifid. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hub. Burma : Pegu. 



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