508 
CHKYSOMELIDyE. 
slightly thickened, extended only a little beyond the thorax in 
the $ . Thorax subquadrate, about half as broad again as long, 
sides straight or slightly concave at the base, rounded in front, 
anterior angles dentiform, surface rather strongly but irregularly 
Fig. 170 . — Chrysochus siJchima. 
and subremotely punctured. Scutellurn smooth, ovatel y rounded. 
Elytra much wider at the base than the thorax, perceptibly 
depressed behind, the base, very finely punctured, the interstices 
everywhere finely aciculate or scratched. Legs rather elongate ; 
claws bifid, the inner portion short. 
Length 10 mm. 
Hob. Sikhim {Coll. Jacoby). 
May be known by the sparsely punctured head, short joints of 
the autennm, and the finely punctured and aciculate elytra. The 
two specimens before me seem to be females. 
883. Chrysochus nilgiriensis, sp. n. 
Metallic green ; labrum and basal joints of antennae fulvous. 
Head remotely and rather finely punctured, deeply longitudin- 
ally sulcate at the middle ; clypeus not separated from the face, 
strongly punctured ; antennae not extending to the middle of the 
elytra, basal joint greenish, the following three fulvous, rest black, 
third joint half as long again as the fourth, terminal joints equal, 
slightly thickened. Thorax transverse, nearly twice as broad as 
long, very slightly widened at the middle, lateral margins feebly 
rounded and finely strigose, angles acute, surface rather strongly and 
subremotely punctured, interstices somew'hat unevenly raised here 
and there. 8cutellum metallic blue, rather broad, with two small 
fovese. Elytra much wider than the thorax, with a shallow trans- 
verse depression below the base, closely punctured in rows ; punc- 
tures stronger within the depression and anteriorly than posteriorly 
