POJDAGRICA. 



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199. Podagrica striatipennis, Jacoby. 



Podagrica (Nisotra) striatipennis, Jac, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xl, 

 1896, p. 268. 



Body oblong, parallel-sided, pointed behind. Eulvous ; elytra 

 metallic blue ; the four basal segments of the antennas brown ; from 

 the sixth to the last the segments are black; breast and abdomen 

 (except the last sternite) more or Jess black. 



Head with vertex convex and im punctate, frontal tubercles 

 obsolete, clypeus transversely raised. Antennae extending a little 

 beyond the base of the prouotum, robust; first segment much 

 thickened and large, second shorter but thicker than third, the 

 latter and the two following segments equal; from the sixth to 

 the last the segments are thickened. Prothorax a little less than 

 twice as broad as long, sides much rounded, anterior lateral angles 

 thickened, posterior margin slightly sinuate on either side, its 

 median lobe rounded and but little produced ; on either side, 

 nearer to the hind angle than to the median lobe, is a deep but 

 short impression perpendicular to the base, while behind either 

 eye, and perpendicnlar to the anterior margin, there is also a 

 short but deep impression ; each of the anterior and posterior 

 •lateral angles bears a fine seta; surface rather convex, very finely 

 and rather closely punctate. Scutellum small, triangular, and 

 impunctate. Elytra hardly broader at the base than the pro- 

 thorax, nearly parallel-sided, pointed at the apex; very strongly 

 and rather regularly punctate-striate, each elytron having about 

 eleven rows of punctures, including a short scutellar and an 

 extreme marginal row ; intervals finely and closely punctate. 

 Underside : legs robust. 



Length, 3|-4 mm. 



Bombay: Belgaum. 



Type in the British Museum. 



200. Podagrica nigripennis, Jacoby. 



Podagrica (Nisotra) nigripennis, Jac, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belff. xlvii, 

 1903, p. 109. 



Body very convex, pointed behind. Colour black; the four 

 basal segments of the antennas, the head, prothorax, prosternum, 

 and legs fulvous. 



Head impunctate, frontal tubercles oblique, rather small, inter- 

 antennal carina flat and short. Antennae only about one milli- 

 metre shorter than the length of the body ; first segment ljng 

 and club-shaped, second slightly shorter than third, fourth equal 

 to third ; from the fifth to the last the segments are more 

 elongate and slightly thicker. Prothorax about twice as broad 

 as long, convex, sides rounded, anterior angles distinct and 

 thickened, each having a seta-bearing pore ; on each side, perpen- 

 dicular to the front margin, is a longitudinal, short, and deeply 



