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gustiore et elytris angustioribus longioribusque , valde dis- 

 crepant. 



Long. 12 mm. 



Habitat: Hongkong. 



Uppersurface brightly shining, head and thorax dark 

 bronzy-green with faint purplish reflections , parts of the 

 mouth piceous, elytra bright golden bronzy with a narrow 

 violaceous border along the suture and a pale greenish 

 lateral rim. Underneath and legs piceous with a bronzy 

 hue, very shining. 



Head smooth with two elongate shallow impressions be- 

 tween the antennae and a third small one in the middle. 

 Prothorax rather small for the genus , the front angles 

 broadly rounded, hairy, the sides not much angularly ex- 

 panded, the edges formed by the emargination before the 

 hinder angles very acute , the lateral margins but mode- 

 rately reflexed; the disc transversely depressed beyond the 

 middle, with two impressions in the centre united by a 

 hardly perceptible dorsal line, the subconcave sides faintly 

 wrinkled. Scutellum triangular, acute. Elytra subquadrate 

 and moderately convex , with the shoulders broadly roun- 

 ded , the sides slightly swelling out downwards , the apex 

 largely truncated; distinctly punctate-striate , the punctures 

 diminishing towards the margins and the apex, the inter- 

 vals plain and smooth. Undersurface almost smooth. 



This species is extremely close to P. Eschscholtzi Parry, 

 but may be distinguished by its smaller prothorax, which 

 is much narrower than in any specimen of Eschscholtzi I 

 have seen , and by its elytra being narrower and altogether 

 longer. 



P hy s o de r a cyanipennis, v. d. Poll. 



Oblongo-ovata , subconvexa , supra nitidissima , capite pro- 

 thoraceque atris, hoc lateribus sat coerulescentibus , elytris 

 cyaneis , subviolascentibus. Subtus cum pedibus fusco-coeru- 

 lescens, nitida. Caput leve, inter antennas obsolete bi-im- 

 pressum ; prothorax latus , lateribus in medio obtuse angu- 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XI. 



