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CRiiYSOMELIDiE. 
but uot very closely punctured, the front divided by a deep longi- 
tudinal groove ; clypeus separated from the face by a trans- 
verse groove ; antennae metallic blue, extending rather beyond 
half the length of the elytra, the terminal five joints dilated 
but longer than broad. Thorax nearly twice as broad as loug, the 
anterior margin straight, the sides only slightly rounded, the 
surface rather sparingly punctured on the disc, the sides nearly 
impunctate. Elytra subcylindrical, not impressed below the base 
or with a scarcely perceptible depression, strongly and very closely 
punctate-striate. Claws appendiculate. 
Length 6 mm. 
Hah. Burma : Karennee. 
Amongst the smaller species of this genus 0. bar manic as may 
be known by the rather long antennae, the want of an elytral 
depression, the close and strong puncturation and appendiculate 
claws. 
864. Corynodes cavifrons, sp. n. 
<S . Dark violaceous ; second and third joints of the antennae 
fulvous ; labrum blue. 
Head purplish, with deep longitudinal cavity on the front, 
remotely and rather finely punctured ; clypeus separated from the 
face by a transverse straight sulcus, very closely and finely rugose 
and sparingly pubescent; antennae purplish, basal joint dark blue, 
second aud third more or less fulvous, terminal five joints dilated 
but longer than broach Thorax twice as broad as long, lateral 
margins evenly rounded, narrowly reflexed, posterior angles not 
produced, anterior dentiform ; surface finely, very irregularly and 
remotely punctured, with a depression near the posterior angles. 
Scutellum smooth, base with a fovea. Elytra parallel- sided, a 
shallow depression below the base and a very short one within 
the shoulders, the shoulders not very prominent ; entire surface 
very finely punctured, with partly aciculate interstices. Blanks of 
the thorax distinctly punctured. Claws appendiculate. 
Length 9 mm. 
Hah. Southern India : Nilgiris ( Coll. H. E. Anclrewes). 
865. Corynodes gratios.us, Baly (Platycorinus), Descript, new gen. Sf 
spec. Phytoph. 1864, p. 7 ; Marshall (Corynodes), Jour n. Linn. 
Soc., Zool. viii, 1865, p. 41 ; Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 1867, 
. p. 127. 
Narrowly oblong or subelongate, metallic greenish-blue. 
Head with the front swollen, obliquely depressed aud excavate 
anteriorly ; face with its anterior border rounded, slightly 
depressed and excavated, surface coarsely punctured ; clypeus 
broader than long, not separated at base from the face, sides 
obliquely convergent posteriorly, apex broadly truncate, surface 
closely punctured ; antennae nearly two-thirds the leugth of body 
