CLEORINA. 485 



sides rounded and convergent from base to apex, all the angles 

 acute; surface rather more coarsely punctured than the head. 

 Scutellum broader than long, metallic green. Elytra broader at 

 base than the thorax, apex broadly rounded, surface faintly 

 impressed below the base ; humeral callus prominent ; the punc- 

 tured striae distinct for their whole length, less deeply impressed 

 towards the apex. Posterior femora with a minute tooth. 



Leiiyth 5 mm. 



Hob. Southern India. 



838. Cleorina jacobyi, Duvio. Ann. Soc, Ent. Belg. xxxvi, 1892, 

 p. 415. 



Head, thorax and elytra metallic greea ; palpi testaceous ; 

 antennae black, third and part of fourth joint fulvous ; breast and 

 femora blackish-aeneous ; labrum, knees, tibiae and tarsi fulvous ; 

 abdomen black. 



Head moderately strongly and remotely punctured; antennae 

 extending to two-thirds the length of the body, basal three joints 

 and part of fourth fulvous, first and second joints thickened, latter 

 short, third and fourth slender, subequal, half as long again as the 

 second, the following joints gradually widened and thickened. 

 Thorax about half as broad again as long, narrowed anteriorly, 

 sides rugose and regularly rounded, deeply rugosely punctured, 

 interstices convex. Scutellum smooth. Elytra wider than the 

 thorax at base, subparallel, sulcate near the margins, with a short 

 depression below base ; surface distinctly punctate-striate within 

 the depression, the punctures larger towards the sides, finer and 

 nearly obsolete towards the apex, interstices flat and smooth, sides 

 with some transverse wrinkles. 



Far. Thorax green, elytra violaceous. 



Lenf/th 3-3 1 mm. 



Hob. Sikhim : Kurseong. 



839. Cleorina indica, sp. n. 



Purplish or dark violaceous ; basal joints j the antennae fulvous. 



Head extremely finely and sparingly punctured; clypeus 

 strongly ernarginate, not separated from the face ; antennae black, 

 basal four joints fulvous, fifth and following joints gradually 

 widened. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long, sides nearly 

 straight, anterior margin with a narrow groove, surface strongly 

 and rather closely punctured throughout. Scutellum broader 

 than long, metallic green. Elytra with a distinct depression 

 below the base, strongly punctate-striate, punctures obsolete at the 

 apex, shoulders prominent, followed by a short costa. Beneath 

 metallic green, impunctate; abdomen and legs darker. 



Length 2% mm. 



Hab. Tenasserim. Type in Brit. Mus. 



Sometimes cupreous above, or the thorax of that colour only, 

 and the elytra violaceous. 



