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The head and thorax are deep blood-red, and very smooth, the 

 left cheek in the female is slightly enlarged and even in the maie 

 is a httle asymmetrical; the prosternum is finely wrinkled, its 

 process truncate and blackish. The antennee are black, obscurely 

 reddish at the base, for two or three joints, the seventh and eighth 

 joints are both triangular, the ninth and tenth transverse, and 

 the apical one as long as broad. The thorax is half as long again 

 as broad ; in the maie convex, and like that of CalUlanguria 

 luzonica^ the sides contract a little more in front than at the base; 

 the base is depressed with punctiform striolae. The elytra taper 

 from their base to the apex, they are of a brilliant metallic green; 

 viewed sideways a purple reflexion may be seen, they hâve seven 

 rows of fair-sized punctures which almost vanish near the apex, 

 the interstices are wrinkled. The apex itself is mucronate, the 

 suturai angle being eut out, the suture itself ending in an acute 

 denticule. 



The legs are black, with the body, the latter is glabrous; with a 

 very strong lens a few obsolète pointa may be seen on the basai 

 segment. 



It will be observed that this beautiful insect is very like a 

 CalUlanguria in many of its characters, but the excised apical 

 angle is unlike the structure in that genus. There are no abdominal 

 Unes. 



Two maies and one female were obtained. > 



Stenodastus metallescens n. sp. — Nigro-piceus, nitidus, 

 superne aeneo-submetallicus capite crebre fortius, prothorace subti- 

 liter minus crebre punctulatis, hoc oblongo-quadrato, quam elytra 

 vix latiori, elytris obsolète tenue striato-punctatis, ad angulum 

 suturalem leviter haud acute excisis. — Long. 6.5-10 mill. 



Hah. India, Nilgiri Hills (A.ndrewes, G. -F. Hampson). 



Head rather produced; eyes rather coarsely facetted, antennae 

 nearly as long as the head and thorax, with the third to eighth joints 

 fusiform, the seventh and eighth being obconic; club with the first 

 two joints wider than long, a little acuminate inside, apical joint 

 squarish. Thorax longer tlian wide, the sides nearly parallel, a little 

 widened in the middle, where it is fully as wide as the elytra at their 

 widest part; very finely but thickly and distinctly punctate. The 

 margin of the base transversely depressed, with very short striolae 

 on each side scarcely more than points. Elytra with obsolète Unes 

 of linear punctures which are vague at the sides and towards the 

 apex, a very few minute points upon the interstices. The suturai 

 angle is not truly eut out, but the suturai stria terminâtes before the 

 apex, and the tip of the elytron is laterally compressed, so as to 



