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concave-emarginate ; mandiftes robust, black ; palpi rather slender; 

 antennae scarcely extending to the middle of the elytra, the first 

 joint more or less metallic, the following three joints fulvous, 

 slender, the terminal five joints purplish, forming a broad club, 

 the joints broader than long, dilated and flattened, pubescent. 

 Thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides strongly 

 deflexed, narrowly margined, the lateral margins rounded, the 

 angles distinct ; the surface closely and rather strongly punctured 

 at the sides, more remotely so on the disc, and one or two shallow 

 depressions on the sides. Scutellum broader than long. Elytra 

 broader at the base than the thorax, transversely depressed b^low 

 the base, slightly more strongly punctured than the thorax, 

 especially within the depression, with slight traces of longitudinal 

 smooth lines, the shoulders very prominent and with a short 

 oblique costa running towards the outer margin, elytral epipleurae 

 narrow, continued behind the middle. "Underside clothed with 

 short white pubescence. Femora unarmed, tibiae longitudinally 

 sulcate, the first joint of the posterior tarsi double the length of 

 the second ; claws broadly appendiculate. Prosternum narrowed 

 between the coxae, strongly punctured, much longer than broad. 



Length 6-10 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Tharawaddy, Taungde. 



889. Heminodes unicolor, Duviv. (Dermorhytis) Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 

 xxxv, 1891, p. 38. 



Bright metallic green or blue ; antennae, palpi, labrum and tarsi 

 nearly black, basal four or five joints of antennae fulvous. 



Head rugose, especially on the front, clothed with very short 

 pubescence, a fovea between the eyes and a narrow centra) groove 

 on the front; eyes large, rounded ; antennae piceous, reaching to 

 two-thirds the length of the body, third joint slightly longer than 

 the fourth, following joints slightly longer than the third, terminal 

 joints slightly dilated and compressed. Thorax about twice as 

 broad as long, transversely convex, sides subangulate before the 

 middle, anterior border deeply emarginate near the sides, surface 

 strongly and closely punctured. Elytra wider at base than the 

 thorax, extreme basal margin carinate ; surface as strongly and 

 closely punctured as the thorax, puncturation slightly finer towards 

 the apex, interstices here and there with traces of longitudinal 

 ridges. Prosternum rather broad and subquadrately oblong. Legs 

 robust, femora strongly thickened, tarsi broad. 



Length 7|-9 mm. 



Bab. Bengal: Konbir; Bombay: Kanara, Belgaum ; Burma. 



The want of the dilated prosternum posteriorly as in Dermo- 

 rhytis and the convex anterior margin of the thoracic episternum 

 place this species more appropriately in Heminodes. 



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