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rather strongly punctate-striate ; interstices flat, with a few 
scattered minute punctures. Legs piceous ; anterior margin of 
thoracic episternum concave. 
Length 2 mm. 
Hab. Southern India : Nilgiris. 
Group COLASPINI. 
More or less oblong or elongate ; head prominent ; antennae 
slender, filiform. Thorax transverse, sides more or less dentate 
or distinctly angulate. Prosternum oblong, base truncate ; anterior 
margin of thoracic episternum concave. Legs slender, femora 
unarmed, tibiae entire ; claws appendiculate. 
Metallic species often brilliantly coloured and ornamented with 
purplish markings ; principally distinguished by the dentate or 
angulate sides of the thorax, but resembling in shape Chrysolampra, 
from which they can be readily separated by the non-incrassate 
anterior femora. 
Genus DERMORHYTIS. 
Dermorhytis, Laly, Journ. Ent. i, 1861, p. 282; C/iapuis, Gen. 
Coleopt. X, 187*4, p. 252 ; Lefh. Cat. Eumolp. 1885, p. 48. 
Type, D. ignco-fasciatci, Baly, from Ceylon. 
Range. India ; Ceylon ; Borneo. 
Elongate, subcyclindrical. Eyes feebly emarginate ; antennae 
slender, filiform, third joint more than double as long as the 
second. Thorax transverse, sides more or less angulate. Scutellum 
somewhat ovate. Elytra oblong, parallel-sided, sides generally 
transversely rugose. Legs rather robust, femora unarmed, tibia? 
