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to the fourth and fifth united, these subequal ; sixth to tenth 

 gradually shorter, compressed and dilated, produced each into a 

 short angular process at the apex on the anterior side, eleventh 

 scarcely longer than the tenth. Prothorax armed with an obtuse 

 conical tubercle at the middle of each side. Elytra moderately 

 long, more or less parallel-sided, rounded at the apex. Hind legs 

 much longer than the middle pair, and these a little longer than 

 the front 'legs ; femora distinctly but not abruptly clavate, sub- 

 peduTiculate^at the base, the hind pair reach almost to the apex of 

 the elytra; hind tibia compressed, shghtly dilated towards the 

 apex ;' first joint of the hind tarsi a little longer, sometimes 

 shorter, than the next two joints united. Abdomen narrowed 

 posteriorly, rounded at the apex of the last ventral segment. 

 Acetabula of front coxae narrowly open posteriorly. 



Pascoe, in describing this genus, stated that the unique type 

 specimen of /. femonita api>eared to him to be a male. In this he 

 was mistaken.* The type is undoubtedly a female, as is also the 

 unique tvpe specimen of /. pyrrha, Pasc. Lacordaire knew only 

 the first 'of these two species, and appears to have shared Pascoe's 

 mistake in regard to the sex, since the cliaracters given by him for 

 the male are really applicable to the female. 



250. Ipothalia pyrrha, Poicoe, A. M. X. H. ( 3j xix, p. 314 (1S67). 



9 Dark blue and subnitid ; with the elytra somewhat greenish, 

 very'denselv rugulose-punctate and dull, except near the apex 

 where thev'are smoother, subnitid, and slightly bluish in colour; 

 the legs entirely ferruginous red ; the antennae Avith the first two 

 ioints violaceous, the third to fifth and the sixth m part ferru- 

 ginous, the rest bluish, more or less covered witn dark brown 

 ^ pubesc-ence ; body beneath covered shglitly 



^vith grey pubescence except on the fore- 

 part of the prosternum and on the la?t four 

 abdominal segments, these four glabrous, 

 nitid, aud ver}- sparsely punctulate. Head 

 finely and rather sparsely punctulate in 

 front, slightly rugulose above between the 

 antennae and the eyes, coarsely punctate 

 just behind the eyes, rather strongly strigose 

 at the sides and* on the gular area beneath. 

 Antennae barely reach to the middle of the 

 elvtra ; first joint rather densely punctulate. 

 Fig. 8:3. ^j^-jg ^^^ ^i^g tijjj.^! to fifth or sixth sub- 



Ipothalmpyrrha. Pasc. ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^,^ ^^^^ ^r less pubescent. 

 ' Prothorax striated transversely near the 



front margin, and with a few transverse striae also near the ba^e; 

 the di-c transversely rugulose and punctate, with a narrow smocfth 

 band aloncr the middle and a narrower transverse one in front. 

 Elytra narrowed sUghtlv from the base to the middle aud shghtly 



