HEMINODES. 
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concave-emarginate ; mandibles robust, black ; palpi rather slender; 
antennae scarcely extending to the middle of the elytra, the first 
joint more or less metallic, the following three joints fulvous, 
slender, the terminal five joints purplish, forming a broad club, 
the joints broader than long, dilated and flattened, pubescent. 
Thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides strongly 
deflexed, narrowly margined, the lateral margins rounded, the 
angles distinct ; the surface closely and rather strongly punctured 
at the sides, more remotely so on the disc, and one or two shallow 
depressions on the sides. Scutellum broader than long. Elytra 
broader at the base than the thorax, transversely depressed below 
the base, slightly more strongly punctured than the thorax, 
especially within the depression, with slight traces of longitudinal 
smooth lines, the shoulders very prominent and with a short 
oblique costa running towards the outer margin, elytral epipleurae 
narrow, continued behind the middle. Underside clothed with 
short white pubescence. Eemora unarmed, tibiae longitudinally 
sulcate, the first joint of the posterior tarsi double the length of 
the second ; claws broadly appendiculate. Prosternum narrowed 
between the coxae, strongly punctured, much longer than broad. 
Length 6-10 mm. 
Bab. Burma : Tharawaddy, Taungde. 
889. Heminodes unicolor, Duviv. (Dermorkytis) Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 
xxxv, 1891, p. 38. 
Bright metallic green or blue; antennae, palpi, labrum and tarsi 
nearly black, basal four or five joints of antennae fulvous. 
Head rugose, especially on the front, clothed with very short 
pubescence, a fovea between the eyes and a narrow central groove 
on the front ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae piceous, reaching to 
two-thirds the length of the body, third joint slightly longer than 
the fourth, following joints slightly longer than the third, terminal 
joints slightly dilated and compressed. Thorax about twice as 
broad as long, transversely convex, sides subangulate before the 
middle, anterior border deeply emarginate near the sides, surface 
strongly and closely punctured. Elytra wider at base than the 
thorax, extreme basal margin carinate ; surface as strongly and 
closely punctured as the thorax, puncturation slightly finer towards 
the apex, interstices here and there with traces of longitudinal 
ridges. Prosternum rather broad and subquadrately oblong. Legs 
robust, femora strongly thickened, tarsi broad. 
Length 7|-9 mm. 
Hab. Bengal: Konbir; Bombay: Kanara, Belgaum ; Burma. 
The want of the dilated prosternum posteriorly as in Dermo- 
rliytis and the convex anterior margin of the thoracic episternuin 
place this species more appropriately in Heminodes. 
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