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sternal process is shining purple and smooth ; the 

 irregular smooth spaces at the sides of the abdomen are 

 dark blue ; there is some blue colour on the prosternum 

 and flanks of the prothorax, and there is a small blue 

 and purple spot on the episterna. The apical segment 

 of the abdomen is smooth and shining, dark blue at the 

 base, verging into purple and coppery towards the apex ; 

 the extreme apex is finely punctured and brassy. The 

 under margin of the elytra is dark blue. 

 Length 10 lines. 



Hah. — Fianarantsoa (Shaw), 



Allied to P. couiplanata , but differently coloured and 

 much narrower in the elytra ; &c. 



Coccinellopsis imnctivcntiis, n. sp. 



Kesembles P. lamina, Klug, in general colour, form, 

 and appearance, but with the elytra more narrowed 

 posteriorly ; and with the apical segment of the abdomen 

 thickly and very strongly punctured, with only a small 

 irregular smooth purple space on each side. Thorax 

 seneous, very strongly and not very thickly punctured, 

 the medial channel very narrow in front ; on each side 

 of which there are three or four irregular ill-defined 

 impressions, the outer ones as well as most of the 

 punctures brassy. Elytra brassy, with the dorsal, 

 convex, interstices tinted with brown, or coppery; the 

 expanded margin, which is strongly punctured, has a 

 somewhat round concavity some distance from the 

 shoulder, extended inwardly by a brassy, frosted 

 impression ; a little behind the middle there are three 

 frosted impressions (on the 2nd and 6th interstices) 

 which are nearly confluent ; at some distance from the 

 apex there is a transverse frosted impression, extending 

 from the second interstice to near the margin ; the 

 extreme apex is finely punctured and fringed with 

 yellow hair ; the external angle is not dentiform. The 

 colour of the insect below is asneous, tinted with brass}-, 

 the intercoxal process of the abdomen, some small 

 irregular smooth spaces at the sides of the abdomen, 

 and the posterior part of the under margin of the elytra, 

 tinted with purple. The prosternal process has a slight 

 medial impression ; it is very sparingly punctured. <? . 



Length 11 lines. 



Hah. — Madagascar. 



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