CHyETOCNEMA. 



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slightly thickened. Prothorax twice as broad as long, sides but 

 slightly rounded, anterior angles oblique, base with a very narrow 

 margin, accompanied by an entire transverse impressed line; 

 surface closely and finely punctate, the sides rather more finely 

 punctate, almost impunctate near the lateral margin. Scutellum 

 broader than long. Elytra broad, moderately convex, strongly 

 punctate-striate, the interstices very minutely punctate, those at 

 the sides of the elytra convex. 



Length, 3J mm. 



Tenasserim ; Thagata. 



Type in the Genoa Museum. Described from a single specimen. 

 I have not seen this species. 



145. Chaetocnema basalis, Baly. 



Chcetocnema basalis, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 310. 

 Chcetocnema par vula, Baly, /. c. 



Chcetocnema geniculata, Jac, Aim. Soc. Ent. Belg. xl, 1896, p. 270. 



Ovate. Black, shining ; underside piceous ; posterior femora 

 black except at the apex ; tibiae and tarsi brownish-piceous ; the 

 four basal segments of the antennae brown, the rest pitch v-black. 



Fig. 78. — Chatocnema basalis, Baly. 



Head with vertex and front impunctate, very finely granulose ; 

 front impressed on either side above the eye with a short longi- 

 tudinal furrow, which runs downwards into the oblique impres- 

 sion separating the interocular space from the front ; immediately 

 exterior to this furrow on either side is a single round fovea; 

 interantennal carina narrowly oblong, its lower apex acuminate. 



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