MANOBIA. TEGYRIUS. 



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330. Manobia dorsalis, Jacoby. 



Manobia dorsalis, Jac, Ann.. Soc. Ent. Belg. xl, 1896, p. 266. 



Colour of head and underside black ; antennae and legs brown ; 

 elytra brown, with a large ill-defined broad longitudinal mark, 

 occupying the base and gradually extending, though narrowing, 

 towards the apex, bluish-black. In one variety the head is brown, 

 and the discoidal bluish-black area on the elytra very faint. 

 Sometimes the apices of the hind femora are darker. 



Head impunctate, distinctly obliquely channelled between the 

 eyes. Antennas extending to the middle of the elytra ; second 

 and third segments equal, but the former is thicker ; from the 

 seventh the segments are slightly longer and gradually thickened. 

 JProthorax one-half broader than long, sides straight, anterior 

 angles oblique ; surface with a transverse deep sinuate furrow 

 near the base, impunctate. Elytra with the basal portion swollen, 

 strongly punctate-striate ; each elytron lias eleven rows of punc- 

 tures, including a short scutellar row. 



Length, 2 mm. 



Madras : Madura (Andrewes Coll.). 

 Type in the British Museum. 



Genus TEGYRIUS, Jaeoby. 

 Tegyrins, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1887, p. 97. 

 Genotype, Tegyrius metallicus, Jac. 



Body ovate, cylindrical. Head broad. Antennas filiform. 

 Protlwrax quadrate, with an impressed line in front of, and parallel 

 to, the basal margin. Elytra broader than prothorax, convex. 



Fig. 134. — Tegyrius metallicus, Jac. ; hind tibia, showing the excavation. 



Underside: anterior coxal cavities open; presternum broad, sub- 

 quadrate ; mesosternum broader than long, its base emarginate ; 

 posterior femora strongly incrassate ; posterior tibiae short, dilated, 

 longitudinally channelled on the upper side and with a small spine 

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

 following joints together; claws appendiculate. 

 Range. Ceylon. 



