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HALTICINjE. 



Length, 4± nim. ; length of antenna, 3 mm. 



Pondicherry (type-locality). Nilgiri Hills (Andrewes Coll.). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



This species, although closely resembling Ch. viridis in color- 

 ation, differs in the possession of long and robust antennae in the 

 male, and in having the elytra strongly punctured and wrinkled. 

 In the female the antennas are thinner, but the elytral punctuation 

 is the same. 



130. Chalaenosoma viridis, Jacoby. 



Chalcenosoma viridis, Jac, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlvii, 1903, p. 113. 



Body narrowly elongate. Colour metallic green above, under- 

 side blackish or greenish; legs fulvous; lab rum fulvous; antennas 

 yellow-brown ; scutellum purplish. 



Head with vertex very finely and sparsely punctate, surface 

 granulate, frontal tubercles small, oblong. Antennae rather long, 

 extending to a little distance beyond the middle of the elytra; 

 first segment elongate and club-shaped, second and third very 

 small, as is normal in the genus, fourth elongate, fifth and the 

 following segments somewhat wider in the male than the basal 

 segments. Prothorax about twice as broad as long, sides almost 

 straight, disc transversely sulcate across the middle, very finely 

 and sparsely punctate, the surface finely granulate. Scutellum 

 triangular, with surface granulate. Elytra slightly wider at base 

 than prothorax, with a transverse depression behind the base (as 

 is usual in the genus), finely rugose-punctate on a finely 

 granulate surface. Underside: first segment of hind tarsi as long 

 as the following segments together. 



Length, 4-5 mm. 



Nilgiri Hills. 



Type in the British Museum. 



131. Chalaenosoma cuprea, Jacoby. 



Chalcenosoma cuprea, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlvii, 1903, 

 p. 114. 



Body oblong-ovate, widened and convex behind. Colour 

 metallic cupreous ; antennae fulvous with basal segment metallic 

 blue : elvtra with a spot or transverse patch at the base across 

 the convex area, two others placed transversely at the middle and 

 another at the apex, purplish with greenish margins ; these spots 

 are equivalent to similarly situated bands in Ch. metallica and 

 Ch. fulvitarsis ; legs metallic blue with tibiae and tarsi black; 

 scutellum purplish. 



Head with vertex extremely finely and sparsely punctate, 

 surface granulate, frontal tubercles narrowly transverse, clypeus 

 triangular, narrow. Antennae scarcely extending to the middle 

 of the elytra; first segment elongate and club-shaped, second 



