492 



green, sometimes ornamented with purple spots or bands. Can be 

 distinguished by the deep supraocular sulci and the broadly 

 widened terminal joints of the antennae. 



Key to the Genera of Corynodini. 



a. Head with a broad excavation above eyes . . CORYNODES, p, 492. 



b. Head with a narrow sulcus above eyes CHRYSOCHUS, p. 508. 



Genus CORYNODES. 



Corynodes, Hope, Coleopt. Man. iii, 1840, p. 162 ; Marshall, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc., Zool. viii, 1865, p. 24; Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 

 1867, p. 99 ; Wapitis, Gen. Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 337 ; Lefev. Cat. 

 Eumolp. 1885, p. 146. 



Type, C. compressicornis, Fabr., from Africa. 

 Eange. Africa; India; Malayan Subregion. 

 Characters those of the group. 



852. Corynodes pyrophorus, Parry (Eumolpus), Proc. Ent. Soc. 1843, 



p. 87 ; id. (id.) Trans. Ent. Soc. 1845, p. 86. 

 Corynodes gloriosus, Baly, A. M. N. H. iv, 1859, p. 125. 



Dark violaceous or purplish ; elytra cupreous, a humeral spot 

 and the apex purplish. 



Head strongly rugose and punctured with a shallow central 

 groove ; antennae with the terminal five joints strongly flattened. 

 Thorax subcylindrical, sides nearly straight, very slightly narrowed 

 near the apex ; surface very deeply, strongly but sparingly punc- 

 tured, although variable in this respect. Elytra with very close 

 rows of punctures, the latter finer than those on the thorax, some- 

 what more irregular near the sides ; the humeral patch of triangular 

 shape ; the apical patch also triangular but very much longer. 

 Claws bifid. 



Length 10-12 mm. 



Hah. Himalayas ; Nepal ; Assam ; Burma ; China. 



The species is not an uncommon one. 



853. Corynodes decemnotatns (PI. II, fig. 11), Baly, Journ. Ent. i. 



1860, p. 31. 



Metallic blue; prosternum and pleurae bright metallic green. 

 Each elytron with five large subcupreous spots. 



Subelongate, very convex. Head distinctly punctured ; antennae 

 deep metallic blue. Thorax subglobose above, deeply but remotely 

 punctured. Elytra irregularly punctate-striate, the punctures 

 aciculate, less deep towards the apex, the spots placed as follows : 

 the first subrotundate at base, two before the middle parallel and 

 oblong, the inner one somewhat larger, the fourth rotundate, 

 placed just behind the middle, and the fifth elongate and sub- 

 apical, parallel with the suture. Body beneath deep metallic 



