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without costae, but each elytron with a round deep impression behind 

 the basal lobe, and a shallow transverse impression along base, con- 

 nected to a broader impression at humerus, the pre-median green 

 fascia is also feebly impressed, rather densely and coarsely punctate, 

 the punctures somewhat irregular but well separated, the intervals 

 densely and finely granulose. Abdomen beneath coarsely and 

 sparsely punctate ; last segment with the lateral margins entire, with 

 a serrate submarginal ridge, and truncate at apex. Prosternum 

 with a narrow, declivous lobe in front; surface densely coarsely 

 punctate, and sparsely clothed with recumbent cinereous hairs; pros- 

 ternal process flat, strongly constricted between the coxal cavities, 

 and long and acute at apex; anterior coxal cavities separated by 

 about their own diameter. Femora robust; anterior pair armed 

 with an acute tooth on the outer edge near middle, and with a series 

 of small sharp teeth between the large tooth and apex. Anterior 

 tibiae slightly arcuate near base, with a distinct dilatation on inner 

 surface near the middle; middle and posterior pairs straight. 



Length, 6.5 mm.; width, 3.25 mm. 



This beautiful little species was described by Kerremans from 

 St. Thomas, Antilles, and the above description is made from a 

 specimen kindly loaned by the British Museum and labeled '* S. 

 Thomas (Meyer Diir) ; thomae Kerr. Type." 



CHRYSOBOTHRIS WOLCOTTI. new species 



Chrysoiothris lepida Gundlach (not Castelnau and Gory), An. Soc. Espan. 

 Hist. Nat., ser. 2, vol. 22, 1894, p. 623. 



Male. — Form broadly elongate, moderately convex, and sub- 

 opaque; head bright green; pronotum purplish or feebly cupreous, 

 with the anterior margin narrowly margined with green, and with 

 two obsolete aureous spots on the disk, one on each side of the 

 median line and slightly in front of the middle; scutellum green; 

 elytra purpureous, and each elytron ornated with the following 

 bright green markings: A narrow transverse fascia at base, nar- 

 rowly connected at the suture and along lateral margin to a narrow 

 transverse fascia at basal third; a similar fascia at apical third ex- 

 tending from the lateral margin to near the suture, where it is bent 

 backward, but not reaching the suture; and an oblong spot at the 

 apex; beneath greenish-black, becoming purplish toward the sides, 

 with the prosternum and exterior surface of the anterior femora 

 and tibiae bright green, and the surface glabrous. 



Head feebly convex, with the front triangular, and the side feebly 

 arcuately rounded; occiput very narrow, longitudinally carinate 

 and densely punctate; vertex and front nearly flat, without any 

 longitudinal carina or sulcus, but with an obsolete transverse carina 

 between the vertex and occiput; surface densely and coarsely punc- 



