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eyes; moreover the thorax is longer in the new species 

 and , when viewed laterally , the sides are strongly rounded 

 just behind the middle , not at two-thirds of its length 

 as in fulgida. 



Length 9 — 10 mm. — Glabrous, black, the upper sur- 

 face with a dark green and coppery hue, the palpi and 

 antennae ferruginous red. 



The clypeus obliquely narrowed in straight lines later- 

 ally , slightly emarginate in front, the lateral angles of 

 the emargination rounded , coarsely and rather densely 

 punctured and separated from the face by a suture; the 

 face is remotely covered with fine but deeply impressed 

 punctures , not angularly separated from the vertex. 



The prothorax is transverse, obliquely narrowed from 

 the middle to the front margin , much broader at the base 

 than in front, broadest in the middle when viewed from 

 above, the sides strongly rounded just behind the middle 

 when viewed laterally; the anterior angles acute but not 

 projecting, the posterior ones very obtuse. The surface 

 remotely punctured , the punctures fine but distinct , not 

 larger nor closer together on the sides. The scutellum 

 with a few extremely fine punctures and of a regular tri- 

 angular shape , the sides nearly straight. 



The elytra are not closely punctured, about in the 

 same way as the pronotum but the punctures are larger; 

 the first costa is broad, almost as broad as the following 

 interspace , and provided with two irregular rows of punc- 

 tures; the second costa is less distinct, provided with one 

 row of punctures and slightly narrower than the inter- 

 space between it and the third costa ; the latter bears 

 likewise a series of punctures and is as broad as each of 

 the following (three) interspaces which bear but very few 

 punctures , and the innermost of which is distinctly raised 

 on the middle of its length. 



The sides of the under surface are rather closely punc- 

 tured ; the punctures on the propygidium are finer , those 

 on the pygidium larger and more distant; the opaque im- 



Notes from tlie Leyden museum. Vol. XVIII. 



