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HALTICINjE. 



Death for the reception of the tibiae ; tibiae not channelled, front 

 and middle pairs unarmed, posterior pair armed with a small 

 spine at the apex ; first segment of posterior tarsi as long as the 

 following segments together ; claws appendiculate ; prosternal 

 process invisible between the coxa? ; metasternum oblong ; 

 anterior coxal cavities closed behind. 



More nearly allied to the Australian genus Arsipoda than 

 to any other in which the anterior coxal cavities are closed, but 

 differing in having the prothorax much more transverse and 

 devoid of the perpendicular impression on either side of the 

 pronotum at the base, the tibiae not suicate, and the prosternum 

 not visible. 



Range. India. 



193. Panilurus nilgiriensis, Jacoby. 



Panilurus nilqiriensis, Jac, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xlviii, 1904, 

 p. 393. 



Colour above bright shining green or blue ; underside metallic 

 dark blue; the four basal segments of the antennae, the tibia?, 



Fig. 100. — Pa.nUvrns aiU/iriensis, Jac. 



tarsi, and labrum brown ; the front and middle legs pitch-black,, 

 the six apical segments of the antenna? blackish, but the blackish 

 colour varies a great deal in shade ; posterior femora metallic 

 green or blue. 



