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above metallic green with coppery tinges, the antennae 

 pale testaceous with the club more or less infuscate ; each 

 elytron with two flavous spots which are surrounded with 

 dark purple and which are placed between the 3rd and 7*^ 

 striae '). — underneath the head (the middle of the throat 

 excepted), the lateral portions of the prouotum and the 

 elytral folds are golden green, the rest of the body testa- 

 ceous ; the legs are testaceous with the apex of the femora 

 and the basal half of the tibiae metallic green; the tarsi 

 are brown, the basal half of the claw-joint, however, is 

 pale testaceous. 



The head is deeply and densely punctured, the punctures 

 on the middle are larger and wider apart. 



The prothorax narrows slightly in straight lines towards 

 the front margin which is straight; the anterior angles 

 are broadly rounded, not at all prominent; the base is 

 deeply bisinuate, the lateral angles acute. The upper surface 

 is regularly densely covered with large deep punctures, 

 an elongate smooth space, however, is present in front of 

 the scutellum. 



The elytra are slightly narrowing in straight lines towards 

 the apices; each elytron is provided with ten regular striae 

 of punctures which become larger towards the sides; the 

 interspaces are more or less costate at the end, especially 

 the 3i-d and Qth. 



The undersurface is apparently impunctate with the 

 exception of the head and the metallic lateral portions of 

 the posternum. 



cT- Anterior tibiae slightly curved and with a notch on 

 the inside about the middle ; this notch is accompanied by 

 a broad flat tooth which has the shape of a curved triangle; 

 the margins of the tooth as well as the enlarged space 

 between the tooth and the apex of the tibia are fringed 

 with long soft colourless hairs; the basal joints of the 



1) In one of the 28 examples before me (a female), the posterior elytral 

 spot is situated between the 3rd and Sth striae. 



Notes from tlae Leyden Museum , "Vol. XX. 



