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VII. Descriptions of new or little-kno7vn species q/Glenea 

 in the collection of the British Museum. By 

 Charles J. Gahan, M.A., F.E.S., Assistant, 

 Zool. Dept., British Museum. 



[Read February 6th, 1889.1 



Glenea speciosa, n. s. 



Capite nigro, caeruleo-vittato ; prothoracis dorso sparse punctato, 

 nigro, caeruleo-trivittato ; prothoracis lateribus, corpore subtus, et 

 feraoribus, flavo-ferrugineis, leviter aureo-ochraceo-pubescentibus ; 

 scutello et vitta suturaH apicem nee attingenti, fulvo-brunneis ; 

 elytris valde punctatis, nigris, raaculis viginti cseruleis ornatis, 

 humeris prommulis antice paullo productis, apicibus eraarginatis 

 quadri-spinosis. Long. 22 mm., lat. 6| mm. 



Hah. Java. 



Head black ; with two narrow pale blue vitt^e on the front, and 

 two on each side, of which one, beneath the eye, curves backwards 

 below to meet the second, which runs somewhat obliquely down- 

 wards on the side of the head ; with four pale blue vittae on the 

 vertex — two in the middle closely approximated and posteriorly 

 slightly diverging, two at the sides continuous with the lateral 

 vittae on the disk of the prothorax. Prothorax on the sides and 

 underneath of a yellowish red colour, similar to that of the rest of 

 the under side of the body. A narrow border at the base of the 

 prothorax, the scutellum, and a sutural vitta, which extends about 

 three-fourths of the length of the elytra, with a rusty brown, 

 somewhat silky pubescence. The remainder of the elytra black, 

 with about twenty pale blue spots, arranged in transverse rows, 

 the first of four, the remaining eight rows of two spots each, 

 alternately nearer to and farther from the suture. The shoulders 

 very prominent and projecting forwards a little. The apices each 

 with two well-marked spines, of which the outer is longer than the 

 sutural. The tibiae (a small portion at their bases excepted) and 

 the tarsi black, with a bluish grey pubescence. The middle tibiae 

 longitudinally sinuate, but without a groove. 



This very distinct and beautiful species is the Colo- 

 hothea speciosa of Dejean's Catalogue. In the single 



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