22 ON THE GENUS CHALCOC VBEBUS. 



/'. Elytra with a white dot near 

 the apex, and with a similar one 

 on the 4th spatium before the 

 dorsal spine as well as on the 

 3rd and 5th spatium behind it. alboguttatus Voll. 

 f'. Eljtra with a white dot near 

 the apex, and with a similar 

 one at the base of the 4th spa- 

 tium Richteri Faust. 



h'. Elytra without dots of white hairlike 

 scales. 



g. Dorsal spines of elytra moderately 

 elongated, not sharply pointed; 

 elytra metallic green or blue. 

 h. Dorsal spines of elytra more di- 

 vergent and straight, elytragreen. nitens Voll. 

 h'. Dorsal spines of elytra more 

 erect and curved inwards, elytra 



generally blue nitens papuanus,\n.. 



g' . Dorsal spines sharply pointed ; 

 elytra golden red or golden green , 

 the dorsal spines blue .... nitens papuanns , 

 a'. Thorax with transverse wrinkles on the disk [var. awra^tw, m. 

 and, like the elytra, with an ochraceoas 

 vitta on each side splendidus Blackb. 



Remarks. 



Cli. bispinosus Boisd. The typical specimen , ex coll. 

 Dejeau-Roelofs , in the R. Mus. at Brussels, and labelled: 

 •s>Aporrhina hispinosa d'ürville — hab. ins. Waigeou — 

 D. Lesson", is a small female (length 9,5 mm.) which has 

 the head and prothorax black, the elytra dark purplish 

 violet (like those of Pterostichus Justusi Redtb.), the clavate 

 femora red , moderately sinuated towards the apex , the 

 tibiae blackish red and the tarsi black. A small spot, pass- 

 ing from the outer margin of the anterior coxae to the 

 auterior margin of the prothorax , another between the 

 intermediate coxae, the episterua of the mesothorax, the 

 outer margin of the metasternum , the episterna of the me- 

 tasternum on the lower half, a spot on each side of the 



>f otes from the Leyden Museum , Vol. Ji-VIII. 



