298 Mr. F. Bates's descriptions of 



joints 3 — 5 obconic ; 3 elongate ; 4 — 5 gradually shorter ; 

 6 — 10 slightly depressed, triangulate, subserrate within, 

 becoming gradually shorter and broader; 11 larger, 

 obliquely rounded. The prothorax is more curvedly 

 contracted anteriorly ; gradually, and but very slightly, 

 narrowed posteriorly ; apex more sinuately emarginate ; 

 side margins broader, more reflexed, not crenulate at the 

 edges ; the elytra are much more oblong, more gradually 

 declivous behind ; sides gradually expanding direct from 

 the base to near the apex ; epipleural fold as in Tetra- 

 j)hyllus. The prosternum and its process and the inter- 

 coxal process do not materially differ from the same parts 

 in Charianus, like which genus, too, the head, prothorax 

 and the flanks beneath, are (but less thickly) studded with 

 well-marked rounded punctures. 



Amarsenes ( Tetraphi/llus) ohlongo-camelus. Fairmaire, 

 1. c. p. 137. 



Oblong-ovate ; head and prothorax obscure reneous 

 with purplish reflections ; brighter and Ccerulescent on 

 the front part of the former; elytral intervals brilliant 

 coppery seneous, rather broadly casrulescent down the 

 strife ; head rather finely and not densely punctured, 

 faintly transversely impressed between the eyes ; prothorax 

 more strongly punctured and having several light irregular 

 depressions along the base, on the sides and at each side 

 of the disc ; lateral margins reflexed, dark blue, shining ; 

 scutellum elongate, bright cyaueous, with several trans- 

 verse impressions on the sides ; elytra gibbous on the 

 middle, shoulders scarcely prominent, sides a little com- 

 pressed at the middle, dilated behind ; broadly striated, 

 the stride closely set with fine transverse punctures which 

 become rounded towards the apex of the elytra ; the 

 second and seventh strias unite close to the apex three to 

 six, and four to five, unite at gradually receding distances ; 

 basally only one to two and seven to eight are united ; 

 there is also the usual short stria by the scutelhun ; the 

 intervals are moderately convex and nearly smooth ; me- 

 tasternum and abdomen brilliant golden teneous, the latter 

 suffused with purple ; prosternal process shining black, 

 smooth, a little bent down and compressed behind the 

 coxa3 ; legs and basal joints of antenna? shining cyaneous ; 

 the former very distinctly punctured. 



Long. 9 lin. 



