ACROCRYPTA. — ULAUCOSPHjERA, 



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Elytra convex, punctured as closely as the prothorax but much 

 more strongly, the interstices also here and there impressed with 

 minute punctures ; along the margin there are three rows on 

 each elytron, one along the extreme margin, while internal to it 

 is an interspace, broader at the base and narrower at the apex, 

 and internal to this interspace are two parallel rows, placed close 

 to each other ; this interspace and another arising behind the 

 humerus, viewed at certain angles, are seen to be feebly raised. 

 Underside closely and finely punctate, sparsely covered with 

 fine hairs ; each posterior tibia with a strong spur at its apex ; 

 first segment of posterior tarsi as long as the three following 

 segments together; claws thickened at rhe base. 



Length, 6—6 ^ mm. 



Assam: Patkai Mts. (Doherty). 



Type in the British Museum. 



GLAUCOSPKffiRA, gen. nov. 

 Genotype, Amphimela cyanea, Duvivier. 



This genus is proposed to include Amphimela cyanea, Duvivier, 

 which was first described from Kurseong, Darjeeling, and of which 

 I have before me many examples from Himalayan districts. It 

 agrees with the genus Amphimela in having the points of insertion 

 of the antenna? wide apart, but differs from it in the shape and 

 sculpture of the body. 



Body narrowed in front, gradually broadened and attaining its 

 widest point about the middle, and then again narrowed behind, 

 but not so much as in front. Upper surface spheroidal and 

 confusedly punctate. Antennae short, passing only a little dis- 

 tance beyond the base of the pronotum, slightly thickened towards 

 the apex. Interantennal space smooth and without elevations. 

 Pronotum broader than long, the sides margined and very slightly 

 concave, each of the anterior and posterior angles bearing a fine 

 seta. Underside', anterior coxal cavities closed behind; pro- 

 sternum narrow; hind femora considerably thickened, tibia? not- 

 channelled and not furnished with a spine at the apex ; claws 

 appendiculate. 



Range. The Himalayas. 



125. Glaucosphaera cyanea, Duvivier. 



Amphimela cyanea, Duviv., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvi, 1892,, 

 p. 420. 



Body subrotund. Dorsal surface very shining dark blue with 

 violet reflections, ventral surface black mixed with purple ; 

 scutellum black; the edge of the labrum and the last segment of 

 the maxillary palpi pitch-brown : the four basal segments of 1 he- 

 antenna? yellow-brown. 



