66 SUBFAMILIES CYPBALEINJS AND CXODALOXIN^E, 



5. Colour uniform dark green or bronze gibbosus Westw . 



6.Less widely ovate (length about twice breadth) ...Clarki, n.sp. 



7.Length greater than twice breadth creber Blackb. 



8. Elytra lineate-punctate (smaller than preceding) cyaneus Pasc. 



9(ll)Elytra with 12 rows of punctures (besides a short scutellary row). 



lO.Ovate; elytra striate-punctate ellipticus, n.sp. 



11. Parallel; elytra lineate-punctate parallelus, n.sp. 



12(21) Elytra with 10 lines of punctures (besides a short scutellary row). 

 13(15)Colour above black. 



14. Elongate, parallel(23 x 9 mm.), elytra deeply sulcate(?) 



striato-punctatus West.(MacL). 



15.0blong-ovate(l9 x 9 mm.), striae shallow elongatulus Macl. 



16. Colour variegated, purple and green chalcopteroides, n.sp. 



17. Head and pronotum black, elytra blue, form parallel 



cyaneipennis, n. sp. 



18(23)Colour bronze. 



19. Elytra ovate, (nitid golden-bronze) Frenchi, n.sp. 



20(23)Elytra parallel, (colour darker). 



21. Size large(22 mm. long, legs dark oblongus Waterh.; 



Gode.ffroyi Haag-Rut. 



22. Size small(12 mm. long), legs red minor, n.sp. 



23. Elytra with 10 lines of punctures, without the short scutellary row. 



Anterior angles acutely dentate quadrifoveatus, n.sp. 



Anterior angles rounded var. subangulatus. 



P. vittatus Westw., has been omitted above, as unknown to 

 the author, and too briefly described for classification. Type in 

 Coll. Melly(Geneva 1). 



P. Godeffroyi Haag = P. oblongus Waterh. — I concur with 

 Blackburn's surmise on this point. Its author states that it was 

 sent to Bates for determination, but the latter apparently did 

 not compare it with Waterhouse's type, since he considered it to 

 belong to a new genus. 



Olisth^ena Erichs.,( = Decialma Pasc). 



1. Whole surface nitid black nitida Erichs.; Erichsoni Champ. 



2(4)Elytra greenish or bronze. 



3.Underside brown tenuitar sis ~Pa.sc. 



4. Underside black, head more densely punctured than in 3...Pascoei Bates. 

 0. Erichsoni Champ. = 0. nitida Erichs.— The descriptions and 

 figures given by their respective authors establish this identity. 

 A specimen labelled 0. nitida Erichs., from the British Museum, 

 differs from specimens labelled 0. Erichsoni, in the "subangularly 



