EEOMIODES. 
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golden cupreous ; antennae black, basal joints more or less 
fulvous. Thorax very deeply and closely punctured, banded 
alternately with purple and gold. Elytra sculptured like the 
thorax, punctures somewhat more regularly placed, but similar 
in pattern to those on the thorax. 
$. Less bright in colour; elytral interstices longitudinally 
costate, intervals geminate punctate ; pubescence rather more 
marked. 
Length 6-8 mm. 
Hah. Bengal ; Mysore. 
A handsome species and apparently not an uncommon one. 
Chapuis only knew the male it seems, and his diagnosis scarcely 
gives sufficient clue to its determination. 
Group ADOXINI. 
Body subcylindrical, subelongate, clothed with fine hairs or 
scales : head deeply inserted ; eyes entire ; antennas subfiliform, 
terminal joints gradually widened. Thorax without lateral 
margins. Elytra wider at base than the thorax. Legs mode- 
rately long; tibiae not emarginate near the apex; claws bifid. 
Prosternum broader than long ; anterior margin of thoracic 
episternum strongly convex. Two genera are placed in the 
group, only one of which is found in India. 
Genus BROMIODES. 
Bromiodes, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxix, 1895, p. 286. 
Type, B. inclicus , .Tac. 
Range. India. 
Subcylindrical, non-metallic, closely covered with adpressed 
scales ; antennae short, apical joints thickened. Thorax sub- 
cvlindrical without distinct lateral margins. Eemora not dentate; 
tibiae entire ; claws bifid- Prosternum subquadrate, broader than 
long ; anterior margin of thoracic episternum strongly convex. 
Differs from the genus Adoxus of Europe as follows : — Shape 
subcylindrical ; scales which cover the whole upper surface, ob- 
scuring any puncturation, much more dense. 
807. Bromiodes indicus, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxix, 1895, 
p. 287. 
Entirely covered with greyish scales ; antennae and legs dark- 
fulvous ; thorax with whitish central line; elytra variegated with 
whitish spots or entirely greyish-white. 
Head convex, very broad, with more or less distinct central 
groove; eyes widely separated; anterior margin of clypeus nearly 
straight ; labrum fulvous ; antennae fulvous, scarcely extending 
beyond base of thorax, terminal five joints thickened, slightly 
longer than broad. Thorax about half as broad again as long, 
