492 
CHRrSOMELTD^;. 
green, sometimes ornamented with purple spots or bands. Can be 
distinguished by the deep supraocular sulci and the broadly 
widened terminal joints of the antennae. 
Key to the Genera of Corynodini. 
a. Head with a broad excavation above eyes . . Cobynodes, p, 492. 
b. Head with a narrow sulcus above eyes Chbysochus, p. 508. 
Genus CORYNODES. 
Corynodes, Hope, Coleopt, Man. iii, 1840, p. 162 ; Marshall , Journ. 
Linn. Soc., Zoot. viii, 1865, p. 24; Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 
1867, p. 99 ; Chapuis, Gen. Coleopt. x, 1874, p. 337 ; Lefev. Cat. 
Eumolp. 1885, p. 146. 
Type, C. compressicornis, Eabr., from Africa. 
Bange. Africa; India; Malayan Subregion. 
Characters those of the group. 
852. Corynodes pyropliorus, Parry (Eumolpus), Proc. Ent. Soc. 1843, 
p. 87 ; id. (id.) Trans. Ent. Soc. 1845, p. 86. 
Corynodes gloriosus, Baly , A. M. N. H. iv, 1859, p. 125. 
Dark violaceous or purplish ; elytra cupreous, a humeral spot 
and the apex purplish. 
Head strongly rugose and punctured with a shallow central 
groove ; antennae with the terminal five joints strongly flattened. 
Thorax subcylindrical, sides nearly straight, very slightly narrowed 
near the apex ; surface very deeply, strongly but sparingly punc- 
tured, although variable in this respect. Elytra with very close 
rows of punctures, the latter finer than those on the thorax, some- 
what more irregular near the sides ; the humeral patch of triangular 
shape ; the apical patch also triangular but very much longer. 
Claws bifid. 
Length 10-12 mm. 
Hah. Himalayas : Nepal ; Assam ; Burma ; China. 
The species is not an uncommon one. 
853. Corynodes decenniotatus (PI. II, fig. 11), Baly , Journ. Ent. i, 
1860, p. 31. 
Metallic blue; prosternum and pleurae bright metallic green. 
Each elytron with five large subcupreous spots. 
Subelongate, very convex. Head distinctly punctured ; antennae 
deep metallic blue. Thorax subglobose above, deeply but remotely 
punctured. Elytra irregularly punctate-striate, the punctures 
aciculate, less deep towards the apex, the spots placed as follows : — 
the first subrotundate at base, two before the middle parallel and 
oblong, the inner one somewhat larger, the fourth rotundate, 
placed just behind the middle, and the fifth elongate and sub- 
apical, parallel with the suture. Body beneath deep metallic 
