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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF 

 COLEOPTERA. 



By H. J. Carter, B.A., F.E.S. 



(Plates l.-li.) 



CHALCOTiENIA BI-IMPKESSA, n.Sp. 



Elongate navicular, slightly enlarged at the posterior third. 

 Head golden green, epistoma and mandible fiery copper, ver- 

 tex bluish, pronotum blue with the medial sulcus green or 

 golden, lateral impressions irregularly rugose, green or gold- 

 en with yellow pubescence ; elytra green, the basal and 

 humeral region irregularly uneven, with some confluent im- 

 pressions, one distinct discal impression on each elytron situ- 

 ated on, and interrupting, the second costa, on anterior third, 

 smooth, golden or with yellow pubescence (as also the de- 

 pressed parts of the baso-humeral region), the discal impres- 

 sion limited by the first and third costae ; the costae bluish ; 

 antennce with first two joints fiery red, the rest brown, under- 

 side and legs green or golden, more or less clothed with yellow 

 pubescence, tarsi green above, brown beneath. 



Jlcful imequally punctured, widely excavated (o* with a 

 vertically raised transverse plate notched in the middle in 

 front of eyes, 9 with a simply notched carina). Pronotum 

 nearly straight at apex and base, measuring 5 and 6| mm. 

 respectively, all angles acute and a little depressed, sides 

 only gradually widening, scarcely rounded, the smooth raised 

 parts of disc with a few large punctures, the medial sulcus 

 and other depressions more finely and closely punctured, a 

 short carina extending from the posterior angle obliquely 

 forward. Scufellu/ti circular, convex and smooth. Eli/tni 

 a little roundly widening at the shoulders (without any angu- 

 lation), sinuate on the sides, tapering towards apex, posterior 



