collected by the late M. Mouhot, &c. dll 
pubescence. Thorax once and a-half as broad as long ; anterior 
margin produced; angles largely rounded; sides somewhat 
straight; posterior angles cut off; lateral carinze very strongly 
marked and arcuate; base sinuate; disk transversely striate, 
the striz forming arcs of circles; margins and dorsal line bril- 
liantly golden, leaving two black spots, one on either side of the 
dorsal line. Scutellum golden. Elytra almost three times as long 
as broad, sides parallel for two-thirds of their length, then con- 
verging to the apex, which is largely rounded; basal half dull 
coppery-red, very deeply punctured, the punctures arranged in 
flexuose transverse striz; apical half blue-black, simply punc- 
tured and pubescent, traversed by two bands of golden pubes- 
cence, one forming its upper margin and extending over about 
one-sixth of its length, the second about the same breadth near 
the apex; just above the first band are two small spots of golden 
pubescence, situated near the suture. Beneath blue-black, with a 
scattered golden pubescence, anterior margin of each abdominal 
segment thickly fringed with the same. Legs black, slightly 
hairy. 
Length 43 lines; breadth 13. 
Laas. 
Genus Crypropactytus, H. Deyr. 
Cryptodactylus tristis, H. Deyr. 
Ann, Soc, Ent. Belge, vill. 132. 
Pachbon. 
My insect agrees with M. H. Deyrolle’s description, but as I 
have not seen the insect from which his description was compiled 
I cannot refer it to his species without a slight doubt of its 
identity. 
Cryptodactylus ceruleus, n. sp. 
C. ceruleus; capite punctato; thorace lateribus rotundatis, 
punctato, punctis in semicirculos dispositis ; elytris minute 
squamo- rugosis. 
Entirely cyaneous-blue. Head punctured, furrowed between 
the eyes. Thorax rather broader than long, anterior margin 
slightly produced, sides very much rounded, expanding posteriorly 
but almost imperceptibly ; lateral carinze very short, straight, and 
near the margin; base sinuate, with a deep median lobe; disk 
deeply punctured, the punctures arranged in semicircles and 
transverse strie. Elytra twice as long as broad, sides slightly 
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