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CHBTSOMELIDJE. 
Length 5 mm. 
Hab. India, Ceylon, Bandra (Colls. Brit. Mus. Sf Jacoby). 
In the female the anterior femora and their tibiae are of normal 
shape and the latter are straight instead of curved. 
Very closely allied to the common C. nair and very similar in 
coloration, but I think a distinct species. The differences are as 
follows : — the eyes are much smaller, the third joint of the 
antennae is as short as the second, not elongate and thin as in 
C. nair, the black thoracic spots are placed much further apart, 
the basal elytral band is placed less close to the basal margin, and 
the anterior tibiae of the male are strongly curved. 
1299. Ceratobasis opacipennis, Jac. (Gynandroplitlialma) Ann. Soc. 
Ent. Bely, xlvii, 1903, p. 86. 
Fulvous above, black beneath ; terminal joints of antennae 
fuscous ; elytra opaque, shoulders with a small piceous spot. 
Elongate; head impunctate, a very shallow fovea on each side 
at middle, becoming more deep and elongate at sides of clypeus ; 
latter broad and flat, impunetale, deeply emarginate in front; 
labrum piceous ; antennae extending to base of thorax, basal three 
joints flavous. Thorax twice as broad as long, slightly narrowed 
anteriorly, median lobe slight, rounded ; surface impunctate, 
shining. Scutelluin triangular. Elytra subcylindrical, micro- 
scopically punctured, punctures extremely close. Anterior legs 
and tarsi very elongate, first joint of latter as long as the following 
two united. 
Length 5 mm. 
Hab. Bombay ; Kanara. 
The elongate legs and tarsi, distinct posterior thoracic angles 
and the absence of elytral lobes place this species better in 
Ceratobasis than in Gynandroplitlialma. In the original description 
the length is erroneously given as five lines. 
Genus C0PT0CEPHALA. 
Coptocephala, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. ii, 1848, p. 345 ; Lefbvre , 
Mon. Clytrince, 1871, p. 359 g Chapuis , Gen. Coleopt. x, 1874, 
p. 127. 
Type, G. melanocephala , Oliv., from Algiers. 
Range. Europe ; Asia ; Africa. 
d . Cylindrical ; head finely pubescent ; antennae short ; head 
very broad, subquadrate ; labrum and clypeus broad, anterior 
margin of the latter more or less deeply emarginate, anterior 
angles rounded ; eyes small. Thorax of nearly equal width, 
posterior angles rounded. Anterior legs elongate, the tibiae curved, 
first joint of tarsi as long as following two united, lobes of the 
third joint prolonged into a point. 
