498 CHIITSOMELIU.T:. 



but not very closely punctured, the front divided by a deep longi- 

 tudinal groove ; clypeus separated from the face by a trans- 

 verse groove ; antennae metallic blue, extending rather beyond 

 half the length of the elytra, the terminal five joints dilated 

 but longer than broad. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long, the 

 anterior margin straight, the sides only slightly rounded, the 

 surface rather sparingly punctured on the disc, the sides nearly 

 irnpunctate. Elytra subcylindrical, not impressed below the base 

 or with a scarcely perceptible depression, strongly and very closely 

 punctate-striate. Claws appendiculate. 



Length 6 mm. 



Hah. Burma : Karennee. 



Amongst the smaller species of this genus C. burmanicus may 

 be known by the rather long antennae, the want of an elytral 

 depression, the close and strong puncturation and appendiculate 

 claws. 



864. Corynodes cavifrons, sp. u. 



c? . Dark violaceous ; second and third joints of the antennae 

 fulvous ; labrum blue. 



Head purplish, with deep longitudinal cavity on the front, 

 remotely and rather finely punctured ; clypeus separated from the 

 face by a transverse straight sulcus, very closely and finely rugose 

 and sparingly pubescent ; antennae purplish, basal joint dark blue, 

 second and third more or less fulvous, terminal five joints dilated 

 but longer than broad. Thorax twice as broad as long, lateral 

 margins evenly rounded, narrowly reflexed, posterior angles not 

 produced, anterior dentiform ; surface finely, very irregularly and 

 remotely punctured, with a depression near the posterior angles. 

 Scutellum smooth, base with a fovea. Elytra parallel-sided, a 

 shallow depression below the base and a very short one within 

 the shoulders, the shoulders not very prominent ; entire surface 

 very finely punctured, with partly aciculate interstices. Flanks of 

 the thorax distinctly punctured. Claws appendiculate. 



Length 9 mm. 



Hob. Southern India: Nilgiris (Coll. If. E. Andrewes). 



865. Corynodes gratiosus, Ealy (Platycorinus), Descript. new gen. $ 

 spec. Phytoph. 1864, p. 7 ; Marshall (Corviiodes), Jouni. Linn. 

 Soc., Zool viii, 1865, p. 41 ; Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 1867, 

 p. 127. 



Narrowly oblong or subelongate, metallic greenish-blue. 



Head with the front swollen, obliquely depressed and excavate 

 anteriorly ; face with its anterior border rounded, slightly 

 depressed and excavated, surface coarsely punctured ; clypeus 

 broader than long, not separated at base from the face, sides 

 obliquely convergent posteriorly, apex broadly truncate, surface 

 closely punctured ; antennae nearly two-thirds the length of body 



