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with rounded sides, rather short, the surface fînely, evenly, but 

 not closely punctured, the dise more or less ctipreous, the anterior 

 and posterior raargins generally more or less blue, scutellum with 

 a few punctures, its apex broadly rounded; elytra with a very 

 shallow dépression below the base, more strongly punctured 

 within the dépression, rather remotely and finely at the rest of 

 the dise, the punctures placed in rows, the interstices below the 

 shoulders at the sides very sparingly rugose, the eolour metallic 

 blue or greenish-blue, the sides with a broad more or less (sorae- 

 times obscure) purplish band which commences below the shoulder 

 and extends nearly to the apex where it is much narrowed, legs 

 blackish or slightly metallic purplish, abdomen black. 



Hab. Belgaum, S. Bombay. 



This species, of which eight spécimens are before me, seems to 

 me to be distinct from any other Eastern form with which I am 

 acquainted, it is of course closely allied to several, especially to 

 C. nigriventre and G. pulcherrimum Baly, but the comparatively 

 remote punctuation of the head and thorax and the System of 

 coloration prevents its being mistaken for the above insects, the 

 elytra in the female hâve as usual the latéral rugosities but they 

 do not extend much below the shoulder; the purplish band is of 

 course much more distinctly visible in the green than in the dark 

 blue spécimens. 



Colasposoma ornaticoUe Jac. 



Lefèvre who quotes this species in the Nouvelles Archives du 

 Muséum (1893?) gives bis G. asperatum as one of the varieties of 

 it, in which I cannot agrée with him after comparing a spécimen 

 which Lefèvre has kindly given me; the two species seem quite 

 distinct in regard to the sculpturing of the thorax, but I believe 

 that G. muUipunctatum Jac. must stand as a synonym of G. aspe- 

 ratum as I am unable to find any structural différences between 

 the two insects. 



Dermorhytis Andrewesi n. sp. 



Narrowly elongate, greenish-seneous, antennae and legs piceous, 

 thorax very closely and strongly punctured, elytra rather finely 

 punctate-striate at the suture the sides irregularly punctured, the 

 extrême apical margin cupreous. 



Length 2 1/2-8 Unes. 



Head very closely punctured near the eyes, less closely so at the 

 middle, the clypeus rather strongly rugose its anterior portion 

 more or less golden cupreous or metallic green, the anterior margin 



