OHAERTA. 



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under a high power to be very finely and minutely punctate. 

 Underside : presternum narrow but distinct, longer than broad, 

 its base slightly widened and rounded ; anterior coxal cavities 

 open behind ; posterior femora strongly incrassate ; tibiae not 

 channelled on the dorsal side, the posterior pair broadened at the 

 apex, where the dorsal side is flattened a little, and furnished 

 beneath with a sharp spine ; first segment of posterior tarsi as 

 long as the two following together; claws appendiculate. 

 Range. India, Ceylon, Burma. 



Key to the Species. 



1. Insect unicolorous Ch. apicicornis, Jac, p. 313. 



Insect not unicolorous 2. 



2. Pronotum not entirely black ; each 



elytron with two transverse black 

 bands (of which the first may be 



brown) and an apical black patch. Ch. 7uyroplayiata, Jac, p. 314. 

 Pronotum entirely black; tive black 



patches on each elytron Ch. decemplagiata,sy>. n., p. 315. 



Fig. 118. — Chabria apicicornis, Jac. 



225. Chabria apicicornis, Jacoby. 



Chabria apicicornis, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1887, p. 93. 



Body ovate. Colour varying from brown to piceous ; some 

 specimens have the pronotum piceous and the rest of the body 

 brown ; in some examples the underside is piceous, while the 



