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separated, anterior angles of prothorax longer, posterior reflexed 

 (in C. Master i deflexed), elytra narrower, its spines longer, fove- 

 ate punctures of elytra quite irregular and close, its intervals 

 smooth, besides colour-differences. From C. aculeatus Westw., it 

 differs in its metallic head, prothorax, and underside, and the 

 sculpture of the elytra. Type in the author's Coll. 



Pkophanes bkevispinosus, n.sp. 



Ovate, convex, glabrous; head green-bronze, pronotum purple- 

 bronze, elytra obscure purple and blue, underside obscure green ; 

 antennae, legs, and tarsi blue, the last clothed with reddish tonien- 

 tum. 



Head rather coarsely rugose-punctate, epistoma rounded in 

 front, angulate at sides, canthus raised, prominent and rectangular 

 in front, suture deeply impressed, arcuate, forehead canaliculate, 

 eyes more distant than the obvious transverse diameter of one, and 

 quite free of the prothorax; antennas with joint 3 as long as 4-5 

 combined, 4-7 subcylindric and equal, 8 shorter and enlarged, 9-11 

 moderately enlarged, 9 and 10 shortly ovate, longer than wide, 11 

 more elongate than 10. Prothorax 3x5J mm., length measured 

 in middle, width at bas"e, nearly flat, depressed behind apical bor- 

 ders, and within posterior angles, bisinuate at base and apex, the 

 middle lobe and angles produced; anterior angles with a rather 

 wide, short tooth directed outwards, sides scarcely sinuate in front, 

 nearly straightly widened to base, posterior angle acute, obliquely 

 directed outwards; sides and apex narrowly bordered, the former 

 not foliate or furrowed ; middle line indicated by a small depression 

 at base, disc rather evenly, closely, not -coarsely punctate. Scutel- 

 lum scutiform, punctate, with a central depression. Elytra convex, 

 ovate, humeri obtuse, with a slight depression at flanks, apex briefly 

 dentate (scarcely spinose), narrowly bordered and channelled, the 

 channel occupied by a line of large punctures; disc regularly, 

 closely, and finely punctate, punctures evanescent at apex, epipleu- 

 rse coarsely punctate. Abdomen striolate-punctate, the last seg- 

 ment punctate only, its centre depressed, its apex circularly ex- 

 cised; intercoxal process widely rounded, sides of metasternum, 



