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prominent. Scutellum not longer than broad, impunctate. Elytra 

 scarcely perceptibly depressed below the base, finely and evenly 

 punctured in rows, not very closely approximate. Underside very 

 sparingly pubescent. Anterior tibiae of $ curved ; claws bifid. 



Length 7-8 mm. 



Hob. Southern Bombay : Kanara ; Nilgiris ; Travancore : 

 Wallardi ; Igatpuri. 



The distinctive characters of the present species are the sculpture 

 of the head with the shallow ocular sulci and the shape of the 

 thorax, which closely resembles that of a Chn/soclms, the six- 

 jointed club of the antennae and the distinctly bifid claws. 



Marshall gave no " habitat " for his species, but in comparing 

 the type in the Brit. Mus. I find that my C. andrewesi is identical. 



857. Corynodes curvipes, Duviv. Hull. Soc. Ent. Bely. xxxv, 1891, 



p. xlii. 



" Purplish-cupreous above, violaceous blue beneath ; labrum, 

 palpi and antennae (basal joints excepted) black. 



"Head strongly rugose, obsoletely tuberculate between the 

 antenna) and bifoveolate ; antennae reaching to the middle of the 

 elytra, third and fourth joints subequal, the following joints 

 gradually widened, terminal five joints broad. Thorax sub- 

 globular, scarcely broader than long, anterior angles strongly 

 produced, lateral margins regularly rounded, base sinuate at each 

 side, posterior angles acutely produced, surface finely punctured 

 and impressed also with large and deep punctures. Scutellum 

 violaceous. Elytra biimpressed behind the shoulders, surface 

 strongly punctured, the punctures rather regularly placed, inter- 

 stices finely punctured and wrinkled, giving a leather-like appear- 

 ance to the surface. Beneath punctured and pubescent; a tuft of 

 fulvous hairs ou the pro- and mesosternum and on the basal halves 

 of the anterior and intermediate femora beneath. Legs rather 

 elongate, tibiae widened at their apices, the anterior and inter- 

 mediate pair strongly curved from their apical third portion ; claws 

 deeply bifid. 



" Length 12| mm. 



" Hdb. Bengal : Konbir." (Duvivier.) 



858. Corynodes pyrospilotus (PI. II, tig. 13), Baly, Journ. Ent. i, 



1860, p. 32. 



Metallic blue with purple reflections ; the pleurae, two patches 

 on the forehead, four others placed transversely on the thorax and 

 three on the elytra in addition to a curved transverse band on each 

 elytron, metallic green. 



Oblong or elongate. Head with lower portion of face finely 

 rugose-punctate, forehead deeply punctate, two trigonal patches 

 on its surface bright metallic green. Thorax slightly broader than 

 long, apex sinuate on either side, above moderately subglobose, 

 deeply and subremotely punctured, four patches placed transversely 



