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elytra spotted with green along the lateral margins), that 

 of the tubercles bronze green , that of the scutellum bright 

 metallic green; the antennae are testaceous, and the ante- 

 rior portion of the sides of the pronotum as well as two 

 pairs of convex roundish spots on the elytra (the anterior 

 pair distinctly larger than the posterior one) flavous. — 

 The under surface is flavous, with the head (except the 

 throat), the sides of the sterna (except the anterior portion 

 of those of the prosternum), and the elytral epipleurae, 

 bronze green ; the space between the anterior coxae shows 

 a metallic green tinge , which is likewise the case with 

 the coxae of the three pairs of legs; the trochanters are 

 dark pitchy , the femora flavous with the apical portion 

 dark pitchy with metallic green tinges on the knees, the 

 tibiae flavous with the base and about the apical half dark 

 pitchy , the tarsi pitchy brown with the base of the claw- 

 joint and that of the claws themselves, flavous. 



The head very densely punctured , the punctures so- 

 mewhat finer on the narrowed front portion ; on the disk 

 between the eyes two slightly divergent longitudinal eleva- 

 tions; the green coloured mandibles finely but very dis- 

 tinctly punctured. 



The prothorax broader at the base than long, narrowed 

 in regularly curved lines towards the front margin which 

 is curved backwards making the lateral angles slightly 

 protruding ; the base bisinuate , the middle lobe truncate , 

 the lateral angles acute and slightly directed inwards; 

 the lateral margins very distinctly crenulate , each with 

 ten or eleven crenulations '). The upper surface very den- 

 sely punctured and provided with more sparingly punc- 

 tured raised patches or tubercles which are arranged in 

 the same manner as in sinensis Oil. and thibetana Westw. 

 but more strongly raised. The scutellum nearly circular , 

 glossy, provided with a few large punctures, and broadly 

 impressed along the middle. 



1) In thibetana these crenulations are broader. 



Notes from ttie Ley den Museum, Vol. XVI. 



