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9. Oryptoeeplialus rulvoTaseiatus, n. sp. 



Pale fulvous l)olow; terminal joints of the antennae and the 

 apex of the tibiae obscure fuscous; head and thorax fulvous, 

 disk of the latter, irnpunctate; elytra strongly punctate-striate , 

 the interstices at the sides rugose, greenish black, a transverse 

 band across the middle, fulvous. 



Length 3 lines (c/') 4 hnes (9). 



c/". Head finely punctured at the vertex, the latter black, 

 space between the eyes narrowed, longitudin.'iUy depressed, 

 closely and finely punctured; eyes large, deeply notched; cly- 

 peus subquadrate, a httle more distantly punctured , its anterior 

 margin, concave; labrum pale yellow; antennae slender, fili- 

 form extending very nearly to the end of the elytra, the third, 

 fourth and fifth joints of equal length, very slender, terminal 

 joints slightly shorter , not thickened , five lower joints fulvous, 

 the rest fuscous ; thorax distinctly narrowed anteriorly, the sides 

 straight as well as the middle of the posterior margin , disk 

 very obsoletely obliquely depressed at each side in front of the 

 scutellum; surface very shining fulvous entirely impunctate, 

 with the exception of a few deep punctures near the sides; 

 scutellum raised, its apex truncate, entirely black, impunctate, 

 with the usual small fovea at its base ; elytra parallel , shghtly 

 de])ressed al)ove, the region round the scutellum raised , the la- 

 teral lobes distinct but not very prominent; surface dee})ly but 

 somewhat irregularly jiunctate-striate , the punctuation of nearly 

 equal depth towards the apex, the rows of punctures much 

 more closely approached at the sides than near the suture, the 

 interstices at the former place distinctly transversely rugulose ; 

 the colour is of a dark violaceous or greenish blue and is in- 

 terru})ted at the middle by a transverse narrow fulvous Ijand 

 extending across both elytra to the lateral margin , this band is 

 distinctly curved at each elytron, its anterior margin l^eing con- 

 vex and its posterior one concave ; })ygidium closely punctured 

 and pubescent; underside fulvous, extreme apex of the tibiae 



