PHVT(ÌP1IAKA FROM SI'MATKA ^)S 1 



Mas. Thorax with a ccnlral Ijluish spot, elytra entirely me- 

 tallic blue. 



Fti/ji. Thorax unspotted, elytra Ikvous, a narrow transverse 

 Itand at the l)ase and a broad band below the middle, metallic 

 blue. 



Length ^ ^/^-^ lines. 



Mas. Head dark Ijlue, nearly entirely rugose and \ery finely 

 jiubescent, the clypeus depressed, laljrum and palpi fulvous, 

 antennae extending to the base of the thorax, the lower four 

 joints fulvous, the rest black, strongly widened and transverse ; 

 thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides obliquely 

 narrowed in front, the posterior angles rounded, the median lol)e 

 broad . but slightly produced , the surface closely punctured at 

 the sides, the punctures of unequal size, the middle very sparingly 

 j)unctured, with a V shaped dark-blue mark, the sides fulvous; 

 scutellum thickened at the apex , the latter truncate , fulvous , 

 the base , bluish , finely pubescent ; elytra closely and rather 

 evenly and distinctly punctured, the interstices at the sides 

 somewhat wrinkled, underside and legs fiilvous, clothed with 

 yellow short pubescence, the lower portion of the anterior fibiae, 

 dark blue, anterior tarsi black. 



Hah. Pangherang-Pisang Octob. 18110. March 1891. 



The female is larger, more convex and resembles in its pattern 

 A. imperialis, Baly, but that species is larger and has an entirely 

 impunctate thorax without blue marking. 



CRYPTOCEPHALINAE. 



y. Bucharis minutus, n. sp. — Black, the basal joints of the 

 antennae and the legs fulvous, thorax distinctly punctured near 

 the Ijase only, elytra very finely punctate-striate, the base with 

 stronger punctures. 



Length V4-V2 ^'J^^. 



Of posteriorly slightly narrovAed shape, shining black, the head 

 with a few minute punctures at the vertex, the eyes large, not 

 closely approached, narrowly and angularly emarginate at the 



