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variety of the present species : the sole differences seem to be 
the rather longer antennae of the latter, a somewhat more trans- 
versely shaped thorax in which the anterior angles are entirely 
obtuse and without traces of a tubercle and the reddish legs, the 
femora of which have a blackish spot at their outer side, they 
extend to the apex of the elytra and have two acute teeth below, 
the anterior of which is the longer. In the female the teeth are 
much smaller and the posterior tooth is more or less indistinct. 
Length 7 mm. 
Bab . Nilgiris. 
14. Donacia recticollis, Jac. Ann. & 'oe. JEnt. Bely. xxxvii, 1893, p. 261 ; 
Wytsman, Genera Insect, part 21, 1901, fig. 6. 
Fuscous, closely pubescent, antennae and legs fulvous ; thorax 
obscure aeneous, very finely strigose ; elytra dark fulvous, strongly 
punctate-striate, the interstices smooth, slightly convex. 
Length 8 mm. 
Hah. India : Berhampur. 
This species, although closely allied to I), delesserti, may be 
distinguished by the elongate third joint of the antennae, the 
straight sides of the thorax and the entirely smooth elytral inter- 
stices, also by the fulvous colouring. 
15. Donacia indica, Clark, App. Cat. Phytoph. 1866, p. 1. 
Black ; joints of the antennae flavous at the base ; tlioiax metallic 
green; elytra dark fulvous. 
Head with a median impressed line, blackish-green, non- 
pubescent. Thorax metallic green, subquadrate, the anterior 
angles prominent, the sides somewhat constricted towards the 
middle finely confluently wrinkled, transversely rugose and with 
a distinct fovea at the middle. Scutellum clothed with testaceous 
pubescence. Elytra dark fulvous, truncate at the base, punctate- 
