180 MARTIN JACOBY 



GO. A.ci*otliiiiitiiii violaceuni, n .«p. 



Dark violaceous blue ; clothed with thin whitish pubescence; 

 antennae and tarsi black, head and thorax strongly and closely 

 punctured ; elytra very closely semi punctate-striate, the inter- 

 stices finely punctured ; femora dentate. 



Length 2 7-2-3 lines. 



Head very closely and deeply punctured , with a short lon- 

 gitudinal groove between the eyes ; the episteme separated 

 from the face by a deep transverse groove, strongly punctured ; 

 labrum b'ack ; antenna) with the last six joints dilated and 

 compressed, black ; thorax subcylindrical, about one half broader 

 tlian long, the sides nearly straiglit, the anterior angles strongly 

 produced forwards, the surface deeply and rather closely punc- 

 tured sparijigly clothed with whitish pubescence ; scutellum 

 finely punctured at the base, its apex broadly rounded ; elytra 

 convex, narrowed near the apex , the base sliglitly raised and 

 bounded below by a shallow transverse depression , the disc 

 deeply impressed with round punctures arranged in very close 

 longitudinal rows , the interstices also very minutely punctate 

 and clothed with rather long whitish hairs ; femora, with a 

 very short tooth; tibia3 entire ; claws appendiculate ; the anterior 

 margin of the thoracic episternum convex; underside sparingly 

 pubescent. 



Tenasserim , Thagatà , April 1887. 



The uniform dark metallic violaceous colour separates the 

 present species from the other two forms now known of this 

 genus ; the thorax is of a more blackish blue than the elytra. 



61. Coryiiodes Moulxoti , Baly. 



Several specimens obtained at Bhamò. Tliis species is closely 

 allied to C. percgrinus and C. grntiostis in size and colour ; it 

 differs principally from the first, in having a five-jointed club 

 to the antenna? and appendiculate claws ; the much less pro- 



