CLEOPORUS. 
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830. Cleoporus lefevrei, Duviu. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely, xxxvi, 1892, 
p. 414. 
Black with slight aeneous gloss beneath ; head, antennae and 
legs fulvous ; thorax and elytra greenish-aeneous. 
Head impunctate, vertex darker ; supraocular sulci broad and 
deep ; clypeus separated from the face by a transverse groove, 
emarginate anteriorly ; palpi fulvous ; antennae with the apical 
joints fuscous. Thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, narrowed 
in front, anterior angles deflexed, posterior angles acute, sides 
feebly rounded ; surface moderately convex, obsoletely punctured. 
Scutellum smooth. Elytra wider at the base than the thorax, 
moderately convex, narrowly margined at the sides, regularly 
punctate-striate ; interstices flat, very finely punctured anteriorly. 
Length 3| mm. 
Hob. Bengal : Mandar. 
Easily distinguished by the bronze-coloured upper surface and 
fulvous legs. 
831. Cleoporus plagiatus, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova , xxxii, 1892, 
p. 915. 
Above fulvous ; thorax with two black spots ; elytra strongly 
punctate-striate, the suture, a spot at the base and two spots 
placed transversely behind the middle, black. 
Head impunctate, with the exception of the broadly sulcate 
space in front of the eyes which is finely impressed with elongate 
punctures, the vertex with a central longitudinal ridge, colour 
dark brown, shining ; clypeus separated from the face by a deep 
transverse groove, its surface impunctate ; antennae fulvous, 
extending to about half the length of the elytra, filiform, the 
terminal joints slightly thickened, stained with fuscous at the 
apex, the third and following two joints slender, equal. Thorax 
half as broad again as long, convex, the sides straight, the 
anterior angles prominent and acute, the surface sparingly 
punctured on the disc, the sides nearly impunctate ; dark fulvous 
with two obscure piceous spots in the middle. Scutellum fulvous. 
Elytra fulvous, slightly wider at the base than the thorax, 
subcylindrical, without basal depression, strongly and regularly 
punctate-striate ; the sutural and lateral margins, a round spot at 
the base and two more elongate spots, placed transversely behind 
the middle, piceous ; all the punctures also surrounded by 
piceous spots. Underside black, shining. Prosternum sub- 
quadrate, punctate. The anterior margin of the thoracic epi- 
sternum convex. Femora with a very small tooth ; the posterior 
four tibiae emarginate at their apices ; claws bifid. 
Length 3 mm. 
' Hob. Burma : Pegu. 
TOL. i. 
