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eacli side, with a very small obtuse tubercle at the middle ; traus- 

 versely, but somewhat irregularly, rugulose above, iu part rugulose- 

 punctate ; the prosteruum convex, very densely ancl rather finely 

 rugulose-punctate. Scutellum rugulose. Elytra densely and very 

 finely punctulate ; the shoulders less densely punctulate, the 

 sutural nitid band subrugulose. Body beneath, the prosternum 

 excepted, covered witii silvery-grey pubescence. Femora glabrous, 

 uitid, very densely punctured ; the hind pair reach nearly, but 

 not quite, to the apex of the elytra. First joint of the hind 

 tarsus distinctly longer than the next t^^"o joints united. Fifth 

 abdominal segment arcuately emarginate at the apex, the sixth 

 feebly emarginate, almost truncate, at the apex. 



Lenglh 26-27; breadih 7 mm. 



Hah. Upper Burma : North Chin Hills {Capt. Watson). 



II. Ehjtra iv'ithout yelloiv spots or hands. 

 2-44. Polyzonus prasinus. White (Promeces), Cat. Coli'opt. B. M., 



Longic. p. 170 (18oo). 

 Chelidonium jjolyzonoides, Thorns. Si/st. Ceramb. p. 568 (18Go). 



Dark metallic green or blue above and for the most part rather 

 dull ; underside bright green with a covering of fine silvery-grey 

 pubescence ; legs dark blue, subnitid ; antennae with the first 

 joint green, subnitid, the intermediate joints violaceous and the 

 last five or six dull black. Head densely rugulose-punctate above 

 and on the front ; the clypeus somewhat transversely rugulose. 

 Antenna? about equal in length to the body in the (S , slightly 

 shorter in the 5 ; with the joints successively thicker from the 

 fifth or sixth to the eighth, and then to the eleventh successively 

 narrower, the eighth joint somewhat thicker than the first ; the 

 joints very feebly or not at all angulated at the apex. Prothorax 

 with a smooth, glossy, rather obtusely pointed tubercle on each 

 side ; the disc densely rugulose-punctate and more or less opaque 

 in the middle, the sides and base somewhat transversely striated 

 and subnitid. Scutellum smooth. Elytra obtusely rounded at 

 the apex ; finely and very densely rugulose-punctate and dull, the 

 punctures a little stronger and less dense near the base. Hind 

 femora extend to the apex of the abdomen in the c? but not 

 quite to the apex of the elytra ; in the $ they do not reach 

 past the fourth segment. First joint of the hind tarsi shorter 

 than the succeeding joints united. Fifth abdominal segment with 

 a rather deep sinuate emargination, and the sixth subtruncate, 

 at the apex in the cJ ; fiftli minutely truncate at the apex in 

 the $ . 



Len;/th 17-22 mm. 



Hah. Southern India: Madras, Mysore, Nilgiri Hills ; Assam; 

 Eangoon. 



