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plisli color as the disc of the thorax and margined with green 

 laterally as well as along the suture. Under surface of the body- 

 yellowish brown , with a curved black line on the breast. 

 The coxae and femorae golden green ; the tibiae outwardly 

 fiery red; the tarsi bronzy green. 



Head punctured , deeply and longitudinally grooved between 

 the eyes , the groove deeper , broader and better limited 

 than in Mniszechii and hemixantha', a fine impressed longi- 

 tudinal hne on the vertex. Thorax anteriorly almost as 

 broad as long , at its base not quite twice as broad as 

 long. The sides slightly concave , divergent as far as a little 

 before the posterior angles , then parallel ; base with a me- 

 dian angular lobe. The disc more finely and more distantly 

 punctured in the middle than in llniszechii and hemixantha , 

 with a slightly raised line running from the middle of 

 the base towards the centre; the sides rugose by confluent 

 punctures. Elytra finely punctured , each with four slightly 

 raised nearly impunctate lines ; the sides subparallel ; the 

 apex of each finely subsemicircular emarginate and minu- 

 tely bidentate. 



Hab. Borneo. 



Leyden Museum, January 1879. 



Notes fi'ona the Leyden M^useum, 



