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G'HItt'SOMELIIUE. 
Genus LABIDOSTOMIS. 
Labidostomis, Lcieord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 80. 
Type, L. toxicornis, Eabr., from Europe. 
Range. Europe, Asia. 
Body metallic blue or green, the elytra reddish or yellowish 
with or without one or two black 
spots ; head with the middle portion 
concave. Thorax transverse, the 
anterior angles strongly deflexed, 
invisible from above, the posterior 
angles acute, produced posteriorly, 
the basal margin higher than the 
elytra, the surface with an anterior 
and posterior transverse depression 
and a slight projection in front of 
the scutellum. Legs coloured like 
the body, moderately slender. The 
male has the head and thorax very 
broad, the mandibles very elongate, 
Fig. 18 . — Labidostomis toxicornis 
anterior legs. 
robust antennae and much elongate 
In the female all these parts are reduced. 
174. Labidostomis indica, Juc. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely, xxxix, 1895, 
p. 254. 
Metallic greenish-blue ; basal three or four joints of antennae 
fulvous. Elytra testaceous, a humeral spot and the middle of 
disc obscure fuscous. 
Head metallic greenish, closely and finely punctured, finely rugose 
between the eyes ; anterior margin of the clypeus only slightly 
concave; labrum black; antennae purplish, 
do not quite extend to the base of the 
thorax, the basal three joints more or 
less fulvous, the third joint one-half longer 
than the second, the fifth and following 
joints strongly transversely serrate. Thorax 
more than twice as broad as long, the 
anterior margin concave, the sides roimded, 
posterior margin prominent and raised at 
the angles, median lobe broadly produced ; 
the surface very minutely and closely 
punctured near the base and on the sides, 
sparingly punctate on the disc, the latter 
shining, metallic greenish, with a narrow- 
transverse depression near the anterior 
margin. Scutellum blackish, its apex truncate, impunctate. Elytra 
parallel-sided, very closely and strongly punctured, the interstices 
finely transversely rugose or wrinkled, the entire disc fuscous, 
Fig. 19 . — Labidostomis 
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