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arcuately expanded near apical angles, then feebly sinuate, and 

 nearly parallel to the posterior angles, which are rather acute and 

 closely applied to the elytra ; anterior margin feebly arcuately 

 emarginate, with an obsolete median lobe; base strongly angularly 

 emarginate on each side at the elytral lobes, the median lobe broadly 

 rounded and truncate in front of scutellum; surface evenly convex, 

 without impressions, sparsely and rather deeply punctate, the punc- 

 tures irregularly placed and becoming coarser toward the sides; 

 intervals densely, obsoletely gi'anulose. Scutellum very small, tri- 

 angular, with the sides equal in length and the surface obsoletely 

 granulose. Elytra distinctly wider than pronotum at base; sides 

 broadly rounded at humeral angles, nearly parallel to behind the 

 middle, then arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly 

 broadly rounded; lateral margins strongly serrate to near the mid- 

 dle, the teeth rather widely separated ; humeri rather prominent ; base 

 not very strongly lobed; surface without costae, but each elytron with 

 a rather shallow impression at the basal lobe, and a shallow trans- 

 verse one along base extending to the humerus, and with a broad 

 obsolete impression on the anterior reddish-cupreous area, sparsely, 

 finely and irregularly punctate, the punctures irregular in size, and 

 the intervals finely and densely granulose. Abdomen beneath 

 sparsely and coarsely punctate, the punctures very shallow, irregu- 

 larly placed, and from each j^uncture arises a recumbent cinereous 

 hair ; intervals obsoletely granulose and more shining than above ; first 

 segment only obsoletely flattened ; last segment with the lateral mar- 

 gins entire, without a serrate submarginal ridge, and with the apex 

 broadly arcuately emarginate. Prosternum with a narrow, declivous 

 lobe in front, and the surface more coarsely and deeply punctate than 

 the abdomen; prosternal process flat, strongly expanded behind the 

 coxal cavities, and with a triangular tooth at apex; anterior coxal 

 cavities separated by about their own diameter. Femora robust ; ante- 

 rior pair with a sharp tooth on the outer edge near middle, the tooth 

 not serrate on the exterior margin. Anterior tibiae slightly arcuate, 

 feebly flattened and Avithout any dilatations; posterior and middle 

 pairs nearly straight and subcylindrical. 



Female. — Differs from the male in having the head more cupreous, 

 and the apex of the last abdominal segment with two semicircular 

 emarginations, and the median tooth more obtuse and not as long as 

 the lateral ones. 



Length, 8..5 mm. ; width, 3.9 mm. 



This beautiful species can be easily separated from all the other 

 West Indian species of this genus by the transverse green, violaceous 

 and reddish-cupreous fasciae on pronotum. 



The original locality given by Fabricius (1776) is "India" and 

 from the short description it would be impossible to recognize the 



