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Habitat Diamond Harbour, flumine Hooghly, India3 Orientalis. 



Description. — Olive-green, with coppery shades. Head rather 

 broader than the thorax, with two punctate impressions be- 

 tween the eyes. Mandibles and palpi ochraceous, tipped with 

 black. Labrmn ochraceous. Thorax cylindric, ovate, trun- 

 cated before and behind, with a transverse, punctate impres- 

 sion towards the head and another towards the scutellum, with 

 a faint impression joining the two, down the centre. Ehjtra 

 minutely punctured, with a narrow, ochraceous mai'gin, ex- 

 tending from the base to the apex. Legs very long, pubescent. 

 Femora shining green ; the knees red. Tibice red, with the 

 apex green. The female has two polished, green, round, dis- 

 coidal spots, one on each elytron. 



Found at Diamond Harbour, River Hooghly. 



CiciNDELA Prinsepii, Sauuders. Plate VH. fig. 7. 



Obscure nigro-fuscescens, elytrorum singulo maculis tribus parvis 



ochraceis, pone medium, notato. 

 Long. Corp. /-o- unc. 

 Habitat in semitis apud Ackra prope Calcuttam. 



Description. — Black-brown. Headwith. the eyes very prominent. 

 Thorax narrower than the head, long, and nearly cylindric. 

 Elytra rather broader than the head, very convex ; each elytron 

 marked with three small ochraceous spots, a little below the 

 middle, placed in a triangle ; two on the margin, linear, and 

 at right angles to it ; the third discoidal, round. Body beneath 

 shining purple. Legs with shades of brassy green, particu- 

 larly beneath. 



Inhabits pathways at Ackra, near Calcutta. 



Anthelephila, Hope. 

 Anthelephila ruficollis, Saunders. Plate VII. fig. 8. 



Nigra, nitida, pubescens, thorace femorumque basi rufescentibus. 



Long. Corp. -^V unc. 



Habitat in sabuletis, ad ripas fiuminis Hooghly. 



Description. — Glossy black, except the thorax and base of the 

 thighs, which are reddish brown. The head is slightly punc- 

 tured, and the whole insect covered with very short pubes- 

 cence. 



Inhabits sandy places on the banks of the Hooghly. 



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