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reaching to the base of the elytra or slightly beyond, fifth and 
following joints gradually widened, terminal joints very broadly 
dilated, thorax nearly twice as wide at base as anteriorly, lateral 
margins feebly rounded, surface very coarsely and irregularly 
punctured. -Elytra subcylindrical, the base barely transversely 
Fig. 168 . — Gory nodes peregrinus. 
depressed, the punctures crowded but more regularly arranged in 
rows near the suture and nearly as large as those of the thorax. 
Claws bilid. 
5 . Has rather shorter antenna) and a more conical-shaped 
thorax as a rule, and the puncturation on the latter varies a good 
deal, although it is always deep. 
Length 9-12 mm. 
Hub. India; Ceylon; Burma; Siam; Malacca. 
An abundant species ; distinguished by the strong puncturation 
of the thorax and elytra, and very similar to C. mouhoti, Baly, but 
with bifid not appendiculate claws. 
856. Corynodes ametliystinus, Marshall, Journ. Linn. Sac., Zool. viii r 
1865, p. 35. 
Corynodes andrewesi, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely, xxxi, 1895, p. 281. 
Violaceous-blue. Head not swollen at vertex, coarsely but not 
very closely punctured ; the clypeus slightly rugose, slightly sepa- 
rated from the face by three small smooth tubercles ; supraocular 
sulci narrower and less deep than in the majority of species ; 
antennae purplish, with a broad six-jointed club, the basal joints 
neaidy black, shining, basal joint bluish. Thorax about half as 
broad again as long, subquadrate, the sides rounded and widened 
at the middle, the disc sparingly and deeply punctured, the punc- 
tures nearly absent at the base and at the sides, the angles not . 
