246 



EAliTlCINM. 



Length, 10-11| mm. 



Tenassekim : Mount Mulai-yit [Mooleyit], iv. 1887 (L. Fed). 

 Type in the Genoa Museum. T have not seen the type of this- 

 species. 



Genus XUTHEA, Baly. 

 Xutkea,Baly, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, (3) xvi, 1865, p. 248. 

 Genotype, Xuthe<< orientolis, Baly. 



Body elongate-ovate. Read exserted, frontal elevations and 

 carinas present ; antennas long and slender, passing a little distance 

 beyond the middle of the body; eyes strongly convex. Prothorax 

 more or less nearly quadrate, slightly broader than long; anterior 

 and posterior angles furnished each with a tine seta; in front 

 of the basal margin there is a transverse depression, terminated 

 on each side by a longitudinal line. Scutellum small, nearly 

 triangular, with apex broadly rounded. Elytra broader at base 

 than prothorax : the humerus is raised and convex, and between 

 it and the scutellum there is also a convex portion ; surface of 

 the elytra regularly punctate-s f riate. Underside : anterior coxal 

 cavities closed behind ; all the tibiae armed at the apex with an 

 acute spine ; hind femora fairly thickened ; claws appendiculate. 



In the male the first segments of all the tarsi are dilated. 



Range. India. 



Key to the Species. 



Colour dull blue, sometimes mixed with green or 



pure metallic-blue ; tibiae and tarsi not distinctly 



brown ; pronotum, seen under a hand-len.s, dis- 

 tinctly punctate, with a mixture of coarse and tine 



punctures 



Colour shining green, or sometimes with a bronze 



tinge; tibia? and tarn distinctly brown; pronotum, 



seen under a high power, very finely punctate or 



sometimes appearing impunctate 



[p. 246; 

 A', orient ahs, Balv, 



[p. 249. 

 A", metallica, Jac, 



177. Xuthea orientalis, Baly. 



Xuthea orientalis, Balv, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xvi, 1865 r 

 p. 24l> : Duvivier, Aim. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvi, 1892, p. 429. 



Colour dull blue, sometimes with a mixture of green or pure 

 metallic blue ; the four basal segments of the antennas, the labrum 

 in part, and palpi, yellow-brown ; the seven apical segments of the 

 antennas piceous ; the tibiasand tarsi, their points of articulation in 

 particular, much tinged with brown. 



Head with vertex convex, impunctate with the exception of a 

 few large punctures in front, where it is somewhat wrinkled, and 

 separated from the face by a sinuous impression running obliquely 

 on either side to the apices of the carinas ; the whole face is covered 

 with longish hairs ; interocular space rugose, the carina moderately 



