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nearly straight, labrum fulvous, mandibles black, paipi long and 

 slender, fulvous, antennae filiform, long, piceous, the basai joints 

 more or less fulvous, the third joint slightly longer than the fourth; 

 thorax nearly twice as broad as long, of equal width, the latéral 

 margins very obsoletely undulate, the surface rather convex, 

 crowded with round and deep punctures especially so at the sides, 

 the angles produced into a small tooth, scutellum subquadrate, 

 impunctate, elytra wider at the base than the thorax, the basai 

 margin raised, often metallic cupreous, bounded by some deep 

 punctures below, rest of the surface punctate-striate near the 

 suture, the sides more strongly and irregularly punctured, the 

 punctures on the dise arranged in more or less distinct double 

 rows, the shoulders prominent, purplish, the rest of the upper sur- 

 face metallic greenish-aeneous, the extrême latéral margins (some- 

 times) and the apex, metallic golden-cupreous ; underside and the 

 legs piceous with a more or less metallic greenish gloss, sparingly 

 clothed with short white pubescence, the anterior margin of the 

 thoracic episternum concave. 

 Eab. Kanara, S. Bombay. 



Dermorhytis speciosa n. sp. 



Metallic greenish or aeneous below, bright cupreous above, basai 

 joints of the antennae fulvous, apical ones black, thorax deeply and 

 closely punctured, the sides bidentate, elytra strongly punctate- 

 striate near the suture, the sides strongly transversely rugose and 

 tuberculate. 



var. Violaceous-blue, legs nearly fulvous. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head rather closely and strongly punctured, the epistome not 

 separated from the face, not more closely punctured than the other 

 parts, its lower portion nearly smooth, metallic green, the labrum 

 and the palpi fulvous, antennae extending to the middle of the 

 elytra, the first joint more or less metallic aeneous or greenish, the 

 foUowing three joints fulvous, the rest black, the third slightly 

 longer than the fourth joint; thorax about one half broader than 

 long, the sides nearly straight, obsoletely bidentate at the middle 

 the anterior angles prominent, the surface with a more or less 

 distinct latéral dépression deeply and evenly impressed with round 

 punctures which are not more closely placed at the sides than at the 

 dise, metallic cupreous, scutelleum impunctate, elytra with some 

 double rows of punctures near the suture, finer than those of the 

 thorax except at the base where they are as strong, the interstices 

 at the sides strongly transversely rugose and in some spécimens, 



