236 CHALCOTHEA VIRÉNS. 



The clypeus deeply incised at the front margin , raised 

 at the sides and in the middle , and covered in the sunken 

 portions with large punctures , intermixed with some smal- 

 ler ones ; at the top of the clypeus the punctures are some- 

 what confluent; outside from the raised lateral margins the 

 clypeus is finely and obliquely aciculated. The vertex of 

 ■Üie head is irregularly covered with punctures which become 

 larger towards the inner orbit of the eyes. 



The sides of the prothorax are margined as in Chalcothea 

 auripes Westw., but less sinuated, and the longitudinal 

 median impression runs from the basal margin as far as 

 the front margin. The disc is nearly impunctate , along the 

 lateral margins however there are punctures which for a 

 great part are transversely confluent. The scutellum is 

 more long than broad at its base , impressed longitudinally , 

 and with a row of punctures at the extreme base; the 

 sides slightly sinuated, the apex pointed. 



The elytra at the base much broader than the base of 

 the thorax , each of them very convex ; the apical tubercle 

 pointed , but not so much as in Auripes ; the apex notched 

 and spined at the suture. The elytra laterally covered 

 with transverse deep punctures , which are confluent towards 

 and at the apical tubercle ; along the suture and the lateral 

 margins of the scutellum there is a row of fine and shal- 

 low punctures , and a few more a little inwardly. The 

 pygidium is transversely aciculated. The apical half of the 

 anterior tibiae armed with three lateral stout teeth ; the 

 intermediate and posterior tibiae unarmed; the inner apical 

 spur of the posterior tibiae truncate at the apex (broadly 

 rounded in Auripes). 



Body beneath nearly impunctate ; the fifth abdominal 

 segment with a row of punctures a little before the apical 

 margin , the sixth segment sparingly covered with irregular 

 punctures and transverse scratches ; its apical margin widely 

 emarginated in the middle and broadly rounded at the 

 lateral edges, whilst in Auripes it is slightly trisinuated 

 with the lateral edges angular. The mesosternum with a 



Notes from the Leytlen IMuseum. 



