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Seirotrana bimetallica, n.sp. 



Elongate-ovate, very convex. Head and prothorax shining 

 coppery-bronze, elytra metallic dark green bronze moderately 

 shining, underside and legs dark bronze, shining; antennae, oral 

 organs and tarsi piceous; basal half metallic, apical dull. 



Head: labruiu emarginate, narrow and concave towards apex, 

 epistoma prominent, rounded at sides and, together with the 

 front, rugoseiy punctatej limited behind by well marked furrow, 

 deepest at sides. Forehead flat and terminated hind ward by a 

 semicircular ridge behind the eyes, the latter prominent, 

 Antennae stout, not extending to base of prothorax; third 

 joint little longer than fourth, apical joints slightly larger 

 than the rest, eleventh ovoid. Prothorax convex, apex slightly 

 bisinuate, with a feebly indicated depression at the middle, 

 anterior angles a little advanced, rounded and (not widely) 

 obtuse; sides moderately rounded, widest about half-way, then 

 slightly sinuately incurved to the obtuse but distinct posterior 

 angles; base curvilinear bilineal (seen from above), scarcely 

 coarctate, with scutellum distinctly in front of hind angles, 

 closely fitting the el^^tra; sides entire, and, together with apex, 

 narrowly bordered (apex very narrowly so) with a darker colour, 

 this border disappearing at base. Disc without lateral foliation, 

 central line feebly indicated near base and apex; strongly and 

 closely punctulate, the punctures near centre and apex tending 

 to coalesce and form longitudinal rugosity, but distinct and round 

 towards the sides, with four large shallow depressions in a trans- 

 verse line across the centre, about equidistant from each other 

 and the sides, the two inner more distinct. Scutellum trans- 

 versely elliptic and punctulate. Elytra very convex, wider than 

 prothorax, shoulders obtusely rounded but distinct, with narrow 

 shining border only evident from above near shoulders and apex. 

 Striate-punctate, with ten strire in pairs on each elytron, the last 

 pair on the sides, the tenth stria, at side, containing larger punc- 

 tures, these becoming obsolete towards apex, where the margins 

 become horizontal; between the second and third, fourth and 

 fifth, sixth and seventh, eighth and ninth are wide raised convex 



