ANISODEKA. 105 



Scutellum smooth and shimng. Elytra broader than the thorax ; 

 sides parallel, narrowly margined ; apex regularly rounded ; above 

 convex, flattened along the suture ; deeply punctate-striate, punc- 

 turing on the sides and near the apex confused ; each elytron with 

 two slightly elevated costie, extending nearly their whole length ; 

 at the apex are several others, shorter, but quite as distinct as 

 tlie two former. Body beneath shining. Tarsi broad ; basal joint 

 short, semilunate. 



Hah. ? 



A single specimen in the Museum collection. 



b. Antemiis ad apicem non attenuatis. 

 7. Anisodera excavata, n. sp. Tab. VIII. Fig. 1. B.M, 



A. elongata, convexa, dorso vix depressa, nigra, nitida ; scutello, 

 elytris abdomineque castaneis ; thorace subquacb'ato, fortiter va- 

 rioloso-punctato, utrinque valde excavate. 



Long. 6-9i hn. 



A. elongate, shining black ; scutellum, elytra and abdomen chestnut- 

 brown. Head punctured ; antennae robust, two-thirds the length 

 of the body in the male, rather shorter in the female, joints more 

 elongate than in most of the species, coarsely punctured. Tho- 

 rax subquadrate ; sides parallel, suddenly narrowed in front, irre- 

 gularly sinuate, indistinctly emarginate at the base, posterior 

 angles acute, anterior produced into a short tooth ; siu-face coarsely 

 and deeply variolose-pimctate, deej^ly excavated on cither side 

 near the outer margin, surface of excavated portion rugose, ante- 

 rior portion of disc nearly free from punctures. Scutellum smooth, 

 impunctate, its apex rounded. Elytra broader than the thorax, 

 oblong-elongate ; sides nearly parallel, slightly convex in the 

 female ; ai)ex rounded ; above convex, male rather more flattened 

 along the sutm-e ; each elytron with eleven rows of deep regular 

 punctures, the fii-st abbre\'iatcd. Body beneath black, smooth and 

 shining, abdomen castancous. 



Hah. Northern India. 



British Museum, and most collections. 



8. Aiiisodera Groryi (Guer.). 

 Botryonopa Goryi, Guer. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 332. 



A. elongata, modice convexa, fidva, nitida ; thorace latitudine vix 

 loiagiori, postice paullo angustato, fortiter punctato, utrinque lon- 

 gitudinaliter impresso ; elytris punctato-striatis, interstitiis alter- 

 nis obsolete elevatis. 



Long. 6i-8 lin. 



Hah. Java. 



Collection of J. S. Baly. 



