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closely punctured, the diso more finely so, the extreme lateral 

 margins metallic blue, scutellum as broad as long, smooth, 

 elytra with about six rows of line punctures at the inner 

 diso, the sides very strongl}' transversely rugoee, the lateral 

 margins metallic blue, rest of the surface bright aureou?; 

 underside and lege metallic blue and more or les!< purplish. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



I have preserved the name given to this species by 

 Letevre who had it for examination, it iß much distinguished 

 by the bright enpreous colour of the upper surface. 



Corynodes hirsutus sp. n. 



Metallic green, above cupreous, linely pubeseent, antennae 

 and legs purplish, thorax extremely closely and finely punctu- 

 red, pubeseent, elytra more strongly but as closely punctured, 

 finely pubeseent, the sides with an obsolete costa. 



Length 4 liues. 



Head wilh a deep central groove, very closely and 

 rather finely punctured, as well as the supra-ocular grooves, 

 clypeus transversely subquadrate, rugoseh^ punctured, man- 

 dibles black, antennae purplish, the last five joints broadly 

 flattened, the dilatation gradually increasing, thorax twice as 

 broad as long, of nearly equal width, the sides straight at 

 the base, rounded in front, the surface extremely closely and 

 rather linely punctured, greenish - cupreous, the interstices 

 closely covered with short greyish pubescence, scutellum 

 broader thau long, elytra with a deep transverse basal and 

 inlrahumeral depression, reddish- cupreous, punctured and 

 pubeseent like the thorax, the sides and the base more 

 strongly punctured, with a lougitudinal ridge from the Shoul- 

 ders to the apex, the lateral margin rather broad, transversely 

 strigose, bluish; legs purplish, claws appendiculate. 



Hab. Borneo. 



Tliere will he no difliculty to recognize this species on 

 account of the general colour and the short pubescence of 

 its Upper surface which is only possessed by another species 

 fC. Dohrni). 



Corynodes sumbawaensis sp. n. 



Metalhc purplish, above obscure greenish-purplish, head 

 and thorax coarsely and subremotely punctured, elytra without 

 depression, closely and strongly semi-regularly punetate, 

 claws bilid. 



Length 41/2 li»es. 



Stett. entomol. Zeit. 1895. 



