156 Descrijjtive Catalogue [1896. 



Mentum without any median tooth. 

 Fourth joint of anterior tarsi bilobate. 



Claws not pectinate Drypta. 



Claws pectinate Dendrocellus, 



Fourth joint of anterior tarsi not lobated Eiinostus. 



Mentum with a median tooth. 



Tooth of the mentum bifid ; paraglossse qaite free Galerita. 



Tooth of the mentum short, bifid; paraglossse slender, much 

 longer than the ligula Zuphium. 



Deypta, Fabric, 

 Syst. Eleuth., i., 1801, p. 230. 



Mentum with a moderately broad incision and without any median 

 tooth ; hgula slender, slightly dilated at the tip ; the paraglossse 

 shorter than the ligula and not adhering to it ; mandibles long, 

 straight and incurved at right angles at the tip ; last joint of 

 maxillary and labial palpi more or less diagonallo-securiform ; 

 labrum tuberculated in the outer angles, projecting in the central 

 part, and with two long set£e on each tubercle and two in the 

 central part ; head elongated, with the sides nearly parallel, but 

 narrowed behind into a short neck ; prothorax as long as the head 

 and mandibles together, more or less cylindrical, narrowed at the 

 base ; elytra subparallel or a little ampliated past the middle, 

 slightly convex, truncated behind, but with the outer angles rounded, 

 striated and briefly pubescent ; legs moderately long ; tarsi pubescent, 

 with the three basal joints triangular, and the fourth divided in two 

 long slender lobes ; claws not pectinate ; the three basal joints of 

 the anterior tarsi slightly dilated in the male. 



Hab. Eepresentatives of the genus are found in Europe, Africa 

 (Morocco, Senegambia, Zanzibar, Malange, and Abyssinia), Mada- 

 gascar, India, Burmah, South America, and Australia ; they are met 

 with in wet or damp localities. 



Synopsis of Sj^ecies. 



Head and prothorax pale red ; elytra pale yellowish red, with a 



sutural and a lateral dark-green band distincta. 



Elytra dark green, with a narrow marginal pale-yellow band and 



a subtransverse fascia above the apex sohrina. 



Elytra dark green, with a narrow marginal pale-yellow band . . nigripennis. 



Elytra blue or dark blue ; legs pale red ; elytra costate, deeply 



punctured dentata. 



Elytra hardly costate, finely shagreened capicola. 



Totally dark green ; legs pale yellow, infuscate at the knees . . inelanartlira. 



Neck and prothorax red, the latter shorter coUaris. 



Prothorax only red, very short brevis. 



Head and elytra green or blue ; prothorax red ; neck and 



prothorax purple, the latter very long and narrow ruficollis. 



