CHRYSONOPA. 
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punctate-striate, punctures below shoulders deeply foveolate ; 
humeral callus tuberculate. Legs robust ; femora fulvous at 
base, black at apex. Prosternum subquadrate, deeply punctured. 
Length 4 mm. 
Hab. Sikhim : Mungphu. Type in Brit. Mus. 
A species of peculiar shape on account of the oblong elytra 
narrowed at base ; also distinguished by the strong puncturation, 
very long second joint of antennae, &c. 
Genus CHRYSONOPA, nov. 
Type, C. viridis , Jac. 
Range. India. 
Body elongate, metallic; antennae filiform; clypeus not separated 
from the face. Thorax subquadrate, sides rounded at the middle, 
surface convex, without depressions. Elytra wider at base than the 
thorax, elongate, with a basal depression, punctate-striate. Legs 
slender ; femora widened at the middle furnished with a small tooth 
beneath, slender at base ; intermediate and posterior tibise emar- 
ginate at apex, tarsi with the first joint distinctly longer than the 
second ; claws appendiculate. Prosternum subquadrate, scarcely 
longer than broad ; anterior margin of thoracic episternum 
concave. 
Most of the characters similar to those of the genus JYodostella, 
Jac., but the coloration metallic, thorax convex, subquadrate, 
without depressions, legs much more elongate and slender, femora 
furnished with a small tooth beneath. 
626. Chrysonopa rotundicollis, Jac. (Nodo- 
stoma) Mem. Soc. Ent. Belq. v i i , 1900, 
p. 104. 
Black beneath, dark fulvous above ; elytra 
with black lateral stripe; knees and apex 
of tibise piceous. 
& . Elongate. Head strongly rugose- 
punctate ; clypeus not separated from the 
face, anterior margin deeply concave-emar- 
ginate; mandibles black, robust; antennse 
filiform, fulvous, seventh to ninth joints 
black, terminal joiuts in the type and only 
specimen wanting, basal joint short and 
broad, second curved and slender, nearly 
as long as the first, third slightly longer 
than the second, fourth much longer. 
Thorax half as broad again as long, of 
equal width, sides strongly rounded, surface 
strongly rugose-punctate, anterior sulcus 
deep. Elytra wider at base than the 
thorax, elongate, rather flattened, deeply depressed below the base; 
yol. i. 2 A 
Fig. 123. 
Chrysonopa rotundicollis. 
