CORYNODES. 493 



blue. Prosternum and pleurae bright metallic green. Legs deeply 

 punctured, anterior pair of tibiae slightly curved near their apices, 

 intermediate pair strongly curved beyond the middle ; claws bifid. 



Length 10 mm. 



Hab. Bombay; Kanara. 



854. Corynodes undatus (PI. II, fig. 12), Oliv. (Cryptoceplmlus) 



Encycl. Meth. vi, 1791, p. 614. 

 Eumolpus bifasciatus, Oliv. Ent. vi, 1808, p. 900, pi. 1, fig. 5 ; Baly 



(Corynodes), Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 1867, p. 130. 

 Eumolpus grondalii, Swartz in Schonh. Syn. Ins. i, pt. 2, 1808, 



p. 235, note 1. 

 Corynodes flosculus, Marshall, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. viii, 1865, 



p. 37. 



Purplish-violaceous ; elytra cupreous, the lateral margins, a 

 broad transverse band before the middle and a trigonal sutural 

 patch at apex, purplish. 



Head coarsely and closely punctured, longitudinally impressed 

 on the front which is continuous in the middle with the clypeus, 

 excavated on either side of the latter, surface of clypeus more 

 finely and closely punctured ; antennae purplish-blue with gradually 

 but broadly dilated terminal joints. Thorax subconical, sides 

 straight at the base, slightly rounded anteriorly, surface very deeply 

 and irregularly punctured. Elytra without basal depression, punc- 

 tured in very closely approximate rows, rather more finelv so 

 posteriorly, more irregularly at the sides in the female than in the 

 male ; the trausverse purplish band is widest at the sides, where it 

 extends downwards for a short distance, the anterior margin is 

 also slightly prolonged upwards in front of the shoulders ; the 

 apical patch occupies about one-third of the length of the elytra. 

 Claws bifid. 



Var. a. Elytra greenish-aeneous, marked as in the type. 



Var. b. The anterior band not produced posteriorly, its hinder 

 border straight but anteriorly extending upwards to the base, 

 entirely covering the shoulders. 



Var. c. The elytral band smaller and irregularly cruciform. 



Length 10-11 mm. 



Hab. India ; Burma ; Siatn ; China ; Malacca ; Pulo-Penang. 



855. Corynodes peregrinus, Fuessly (Cryptocephalus), Arch. Ins. 

 1783, p. 63, tab. 23, tig. 25 ; aly, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 1867, 

 p. 132. 



Eumolpus cyaneus, Oliv. Ent. vi, 1808, p. 899, pi. 1, fig. 4. 

 Var. C. chapuisi, Lefev. Cat. Eumolp. 1885, p. 147, note 1. 



c? . Metallic blue. Head very coarsely and deeply punctured, 

 front rugose and irregularly excavated at lower border, latter 

 continuous with apex of clypeus ; clypeus wedge-shaped, more 

 closely and finely punctured than the front ; antennae dark blue, 



