178 CHRYSOBOTHRIS RUTILICUSPIS. 
bluish green, fire-red at the sides except at the anterior 
margin , the red colour extending over the thorax for about 
a quarter of its breadth on each side. 
Elytra closely and equally punctured , 35 times the length 
of the middle line of the prothorax, sides subparallel for 
two-thirds of their length, posterior margin finely and 
remotely denticulate. Base of the elytra, as in insolata 
Deyr., with two impressions: one roundish near the suture, 
the other oblong and near the shoulders. Colour of elytra 
bluish green, the blue tint predominating on the posterior 
half; the suture, an ill-defined spot before the middle 
and a transverse one on the second third, nearer to the 
lateral margin, pure metallic green; the apex with a large 
oblong fire-red spot occupying nearly the whole last third 
not including the suture. 
Beneath green, punctured except at the posterior mar- 
gin of the abdominal segments, thinly haired; episterna 
of the pro- and metathorax, the sides of the metathorax 
and of the first abdominal segment with undulate ridges; 
prosternum on the anterior external margin and the poste- 
rior coxae pale coppery red; episterna of pro- and meso- 
thorax bronzy. Sides of the abdomen blackish blue, some 
fine ridges along the outer margin of each segment; last 
segment at the apex deeply sinuate on each side (Q). Legs 
green, hind femora and the tibiae of the middle and hind 
legs darker, anterior tibiae fire-red at the apex. 
This new species is closely related to Ch. insolata and 
perplexa Deyr. by the absence of the three small elytral 
impressions, by the broad, blunt tooth on the anterior 
femora, by the fire-red posterior angles of the prothorax, 
by the excavated front, by the eyes being approximate 
above, by the last segment of the abdomen being carina- 
ted along the middle and by the small antennal grooves. 
The type-specimen (Mus. Dresden, N° H. 3386) was 
obtained in exchange from Mr. G. Hetzer of Dresden. 
Royal Zool. Mus., Dresden, 23 February 1893. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
