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Head impunctate iit the vertex, the latter witli (wo 

 briülit tlavoiis spott;, clypeus separated t'rom the face^ broad, 

 very linely punctured, its anterior edge btit slightly emar- 

 ginate, labrum lulvoiis, palpi flavous, antennae extending 

 beyoud the middle of the elytra, piceous, the base and apex 

 of each Joint pale, third Joint scareely shorter than the 

 folknving joints, thorax uearly twice as broad as long, the 

 sides rounded, the angles in shape of a small tooth, the 

 surface flattened, black, with some obsolete depression, not 

 pereeptibly punctured, scutellum scareely longev than broad, 

 impunctate, black, elytra rather flattened at the anterior half, 

 slightly widened and more convex towards the apex. finely 

 striate-punctate, black. the sides and apex more or less flavous, 

 interstices flat and impunctate, underside, the apex of the 

 femora and the tibiae and tarsi to a greater or smaller degree, 

 black, basal portion of the femora fulvous, the anterior ones 

 with a distinct tooth {,^). 



Hab. Java, 8500 feet (Fruhstorfer). 



This is a species of rather flattened shape and peculiar 

 coloration which was obtained by Herr Fruhstorfer at a high 

 elevation; the three specimens before me do not differ from 

 each other in any marked degree, the ehtra are finely striate 

 and the Striae scareely visibly punctured, this, their colour 

 and that of the head will help to distinguish the species: in 

 the female the anterior femora are unarmed. 



Rhyparida iridipennis sp. u. 



Obscure metallic greenish or aoucous, antennae fulvous, 

 head and the sides of the thorax reddish-cupreous, the disc 

 Temotely punctured, elytra deeply longitiidinally sulcate, the 

 interstices convex, the sutural und lateral mari:ins more or 

 less cupreous, legs piceous, unarmed. 



Var. Above dark greeu, legs fulvous. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head impunctate, with a short central groove between 

 the eye.«, the latter very large, clypeus distinctly separated 

 from the face, wedgc-shaped, impunctate, labrum and palpi 

 fulvous, antennae long and slender, , l'ulvous, thorax twice as 

 broad as long, the sides rounded, the angles dentiform, the 

 disc sparingly impressed with iine punctures, tlie sides nearly 

 impunctate, scutellum very broad, uearly subquadrate, elytra 

 scareely pereeptibly depressed below the base, deeply sulcate 

 without punctures except at the sides where the sulci are 

 abbreviated below tlie Shoulders, tlie latter prominent: under- 



Stett. «rntoMiol. Zeit. 189:.. 



