40 Mr. J. S. Baly's descriptions of 



as far as the commencement of the apical third of the 

 elytron; the anterior half of the costa is flexuose. Thighs 

 thickened, subampulate, hinder pair armed beneath with a 

 small tooth ; extreme bases of all the tibise piceous. 



Nodostoma Bevani. 



Breviter ovatum, valde convexum, nitidiim, subtus 

 obscure viridi-£eneum, supra aureum, antennis (basi ftilva 

 excepta) nigris ; capite thoraceque subcrebre piinctatis ; 

 elytris anguste viridi-metallico-limbatis, infra basin vix 

 transversim depressis, distincte punctato-striatis, striis ad 

 apicem distinctis ; callo humerali prominenti. 



Long. 2^ lin. 



Hab. — Southern India ; collected by Lieutenant Bevan. 



Clypeus not separated from the face, its anterior border 

 angulate-emarginate ; front impressed with a shallow 

 fovea ; four lower joints of antenuEe fulvous, the rest black. 

 Thorax nearly twice as broad as long, sides rounded and 

 converging from base to apex, all the angles acute ; sur- 

 face rather more coarsely punctured than the head. Scu- 

 tellum broader than long, smooth, metallic green. Elytra 

 broader than the thorax at the base ; sides converging 

 towards the apex, the latter broadly rounded; surface 

 faintly impressed below the basilar space, the humeral 

 callus prominent; the punctate stride distinct for their 

 whole length, but less deeply impressed towards the apex. 

 Thighs ampulate, hinder pair armed beneath with a minute 

 tooth. 



Genus Rhypabida, Baly.* 



Rhyparida formosa. 



Anguste oblongo-ovata, convexa, rufo-testacea, nitida, 

 antennis (basi excepta) tarsisque nigris; elytris viridi- 



* Dr. Chapuis, in re-establishing Pyropida, merged by me into Rhy- 

 parida, and in combining this latter genus with Metacliroma, has made 

 a singular error. He says, that in Metacliroma (including Rhyparida') 

 the second and third joints of the antennae are nearly equal in length, 

 whilst in Pyrojnda (which he restores to generic rank) the second joint 

 is one-half shorter than the third. This is strictly true, when applied to 

 the species of Metachrovia proper, but in RJiyparida, of which genus 

 I possess a very long series of species, the second joint is always short, and 

 scarcely ever exceeds half the length of the third. 



