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and external angles; each elytron provided on the disk 

 with two faintly raised longitudinal lines; the basal half 

 glossy , strongly punctured , finer and much sparser , however, 

 on the sutural streak, very fine on the shoulders , and fine 

 and very dense at the base between the two raised lines ; 

 the apical half opaque in consequence of a fine and very 

 dense punctuation , and densely covered with a short pu- 

 bescence which is black on the green, ochreous on the 

 reddish portion. 



The under surface of the prothorax in front of the coxae 

 minutely wrinkled, the throat glossy and irapunctate; the 

 middle portion of the metasternum glabrous and smooth , 

 sparsely punctured behind , the sides densely covered with 

 a short black pubescence, the hinder margin of the me- 

 tasternum at the sides, the posterior coxae and a patch 

 on the sides of the l^t — 5**1 ventral segments covered with 

 a dense greyish pubescence; the abdomen very sparingly 

 provided with large and smaller punctured. The intercoxal 

 part of the pro- and mesosternum formed as in the majority 

 of the species (no tubercle and V-shaped recess). The S^li 

 ventral segment broadly emarginate, the G*'^ very deeply 

 emarginate, the sides of the emargination parallel; the 

 apical dorsal segment is provided on the upper surface 

 with a longitudinal smooth keel and angularly notched in 

 the middle behind. The anterior femora are finely and 

 sparsely , the intermediate and posterior femora strongly 

 and more densely punctate. 



Hab. Cochin China. — A single male specimen in the 

 collection of Mr. Rene Oberthür, formerly belonging to 

 that of Mr. James Thomson. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XII. 



