152 Mr. J. S. Baly's Descriptions of 



joints excepted), tibiae, tarsi and a large common patch on the 

 posterior half of the elytra, black. Head constricted behind the 

 eyes; face elongate; antennae moderately robust, sub-filiform, 

 half the length of the body, black, basal joints rufo-fulvous, 

 third joint more than half the length of the second ; eyes also 

 black. Thorax sub-cylindrical, rather longer than broad ; sides 

 deeply constricted at their middle; above shining, impunctate. 

 Scutellum smooth. Elytra broadly oblong, much broader than the 

 thorax ; convex, indistinctly depressed below the scutellum, sides 

 excavated immediately beneath the shoulders ; surface very smooth 

 and shining, basal half of inner disc punctate-striate ; rest of the 

 surface, vviih the exception of a single row of minute punctures 

 running parallel to the suture, impunctate; bright rufo-fulvous, a 

 large common rotundate patch, extending from just before the 

 middle nearly to the apex, black. Beneath shining rufo-fulvous, 

 tibiae and tarsi black, the former clothed towards their apex with 

 bright fulvous hairs. 



Hab. Moreton Bay. Collected by Mr. Diggles. 



Crioceris pulchella. 



Elongata, convexa, laete caerulea, nitida; elytris punctato-striatis, 



rufo-fulvis. 

 Long. 4| lin. 



Elongate, convex, deep shining metallic blue ; elytra rufo-ful- 

 vous. Head deeply constricted behind the eyes ; face sub-trigo- 

 nate ; forehead longitudinally grooved ; antennae more than two- 

 thirds the length of the body, filiform, moderately robust, third 

 joint scarcely longer than the fourth. Thorax sub-quadrate, sub- 

 cylindrical, sides deeply constricted at their middle, armed near 

 their apex with an obtuse tubercle ; above smooth, impunctate, 

 apex narrowly margined ; immediately behind the middle is a deep 

 transverse groove, which terminates at either end in the lateral 

 constriction ; on each side in front is a short transverse impres- 

 sion. Scutellum sub-trigonate, its apex obtuse. Elytra much 

 broader than the thorax, more than four times its length, convex, 

 slightly sinuate on the sides below the shoulders, each elytron with 

 eleven rows of distinct punctures, the first abbreviated. Body 

 beneath clothed with adpressed yellowish-white hairs ; legs sub- 

 elongate ; thighs slightly thickened. 



Hab. Northern India. 



