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border. Abdomen beneath green, with a purplish band alou<j the lore 

 border of each segn)ent and wilh a deeply dentate red slripe along each 

 side. Legs blackish green ; tarsi black. Length of the body 4 lines. 



C. lateralis var. ? 



a. Cahar. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



17. CaLLIDEA SClllPTA. 



Purpurea ; unlenua; niyrce ; thorax vittis duabus aureo-viridibus antice 

 abbreviatis slrigas duos obliquas eniilteiitibus ; scutellum fasciis 

 (jualuor cupreis viridi marginatis, 2a 3a 4a(jue coiinexis, '2a furcata ; 

 pectus cyaneum ; abdomen sublus cyaneum, vitlis duabus lateralibus 

 rujis dentatis, ieynientis purpurea maryinalis ; pedes virides, tarsis 

 nigris. 



Purple, short-elliptical, largely punctured. Head vviih two longitu- 

 dinal furrows, which diverge towaids the face and more towards the hind 

 border. Antenna; black ; second joint nearly as long as the first. Thorax 

 with two gulden green stripes, which are much al)l)revialed in front, and 

 ihence emit two oblique branches towards the hind angles; a fusiform 

 transverse cupretms ringlet on each siile in front. Sculelluni with a trans- 

 verse furrow, wliicli is curved on each side to the fore border ; four cupreous 

 green-bordered bauds; second, third and Ibuith Imnds connected on each 

 side; second connected in tbe middle with the thud, forked on eacii side ; 

 fourth apical. Pectus blue. Abdomen beneath blue; a purj)le band on 

 the lore border of each segment ; a dentate red stripe ou each side. Legs 

 green ; tarsi black. Length of the body Ah lines. 



a, b. Cahar. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 

 c. Hiudostan. Presented by Lord Harrowby. 



18. Caludka gxbbula. 



Piirpureo-nigra ; abdomen sublus apice viridescens, inttis duabus late- 

 ralibus dentatis antice abbreviatis. 



Purplish black, elliptical, thinly and roughly punctured. Head wilh 

 two longitudinal furrows, which diverge on the vertex. Thorax wilh a 

 very slight transverse furrow at one-third of the lengih. Scutelluni wilh a 

 very slight transverse furrow, which is curved on each side to the base. 

 Abdomen beneath greenish at the tip, and wilh two deeply dentate lateral 

 stripes, which do not extend to the base. Length of the body 4 lines. 



a. Punjaub. Presented by Sir J. Hearsay. 



It). CaLLIDEA POEl'HVRICOLA. 



Aurato-viridis ; caput vitta viactdisque duabus nigricantibus ; thorax 

 muculis tribus transversis tribus(/ue longiludinalibus purpureis, ina- 

 culis duabus cupreis posticis paruis ; bculclluni muculis sex magnis 

 apiceque purpureis ; abdomen subtus ruj'um, gutlis lateralibus pla- 

 gat/ue subapicu/i nigris ; pedes ruji, feinoribus apice tibiisque pur- 

 pureis, larsis nigris. 



Gilded green, nearly fusiform, minutely punctured. Head with a 

 blackish stripe, which has on each side of it a blacki>h spot, and is bordered 

 by two deep parallel furrows. Thorax with thiee large longiuidiiially elon- 

 gated purple spots, in front of which there are three transversely elongated 

 spots ; a small cupreous spot on each angle near the hind border. Sculellum 



