278 HALTICINiE. 



impressed line; surface, seen under a high power, shallowly 

 punctate. Scutellum triangular, smooth, and impunctate. Elytra 

 narrowed and pointed towards the apex ; shoulders bounded by a 

 depression within ; surface very finely and closely punctate, the 



Fig. 102. — Vodagrica nigripennis, Jae. 



punctures sometimes arranged in irregular double rows. Tinder- 

 side : epi pleura of elytra broad and convex ; prosternum elongate ; 

 first segment of the anterior and middle tarsrof the male dilated; 

 claws appendiculate. 



Length, 4 mm. 



Nilgiri Hills. 



Type in the British Museum. 



201. Podagrica bowringi, Bahj. 



Nisotra bowringi, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1876, p. 584 ; 

 Jacoby, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 1889, p. 190. 



Colour blue or blue-green of varying shades ; underside, 

 scutellum, and the seven apical segments of the antennae piceous ; 

 legs, prothorax, and head light brown to dark brown ; eyes black. 



Head with vertex convex ; visible from above there are two 

 oblique impressed lines, meeting in front and each touching the 

 posterior edge of the eye ; the depth of these impressions varies ; 

 interantennal space uneven. Antennas passing beyond the base 

 of the pronotum and nearly reaching the middle of the elytra; 

 first segment long, club-shaped, second segment longer than third, 

 the latter elongate, slightly longer than the fourth or the fifth,. 



