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insects are of the same bright metallic green, l)iit the antennae 

 are differently coloured and structured, the thorax in //. niti- 

 dissima has an anterior smooth tubercle and its posterior margin 

 is produced at the middle, the pubescence is also Mixed with 

 black hairs. //. hirta^ Fab. is much more closely punctured and 

 generally of a pale violaceous blue colour. 



37. Pagria sumatrensis , Lefèv. — I have not much doubt, 

 that tlie four specimens obtained at Padang, Balighe, D. Tolong 

 and Siboga must be referred to Lefèvre's species who described 

 the type from a single specimen which represented only a va- 

 riety ; in normally coloured specimens the head and thorax are 

 greenish-aeneous , the elytra are flavous with the lateral and 

 suturai margin as well as two small spots below the base, 

 greenish or piceous, in otlier specimens the thorax is fulvous 

 and the elytral darker l^ands and spots more or less indistinct, 

 on this variety Lefèvre has founded his type, as all other par- 

 ticulars agree with his description. P. bipimctala^ Lefèv. from 

 India seems also very closely allied 1)ut is of double the size 

 and has differently coloured legs. 



38. Apolepis Baiyi, n. sp. — Piceous or fulvous, pubescent, 

 antennae with short joints, thorax distantly punctured, each 

 l)uncture with a short curved hair, elytra punctured in rows 

 with similar pubescence as the thorax , the interstices at the 

 sides slightly costate, legs unarmed, claws bifid. 



Length ^^l line. 



Head very strongly jjut not very closely punctured , frontal 

 tubercles al)sent, lal)rum fulvous, antennae not extending beyontl 

 the base of the thorax, l)lack, the lower two joints fulvous, se- 

 cond joint as long as the first, but thinner, the following joints 

 shorter, terminal ones gradually thickened, thorax scarcely one 

 half Ijruader than long, strongly narrowed in front, the sides 

 slightly roundetl near the base, tiie surface strongly punctured 

 in somewhat regular longitudinal rows, the punctuation more 

 closely placed at the sides than on the disc, each puncture fur- 

 nisiied with a short curved hair, elytra with a shallow depression 

 below the base, punctured and pubescent like the thorax, the 



