o12 Mr... Saunders’ Descriptions of 
suture, situated about three-fifths of their entire length 
from the base, of the same colour. Beneath, with a few 
scattered black spots on the sides. 
Head punctured, with an oval impression between the 
eyes. Thorax at the base half as broad again as long; 
sides rounded, base slightly lobed; disk deeply punc- 
tured, the puncturation of the sides deeper. Elytra punc- 
tured and deeply striate; twice as long as wide; sides 
subparallel for nearly two-thirds of their length; posterior 
margins finely denticulate and ciliate, apex of each with 
a short spine. Beneath and legs punctured. 
Length 5 lines ; breadth 2 lines. 
Melobasis purpuriceps, n. s. (Pl. XXV. fig. 6.) 
Caput et thorae purpureo-brunnei, hujus basis viridis. 
Elytra punctato-striata, viridia; maculi mfra basm 
ovali, fascii juxta mediam partem, et apice cyaneis. 
Subtus viridis. 
Head and thorax of a purplish-brown colour, the base and 
posterior angles of the latter golden-green. Hlytra golden- 
green ; with an elongate oval spot on each, just below the 
base, a transverse band which is much produced im its 
centre along the suture, and again slightly im the centre 
of each elytron, and the apex, for a third of the entire 
length of the elytra, dark cyaneous. Beneath, green ; 
legs golden. Antenne of the same colour as the head. 
Head deeply punctured. Thorax, three quarters as 
long again as broad; anterior margin straight, three 
quarters the length of the base, sides shghtly rounded, . 
posterior angles acute; base nearly straight; disk punc- 
tured, with a faint dorsal line, met at the base by a trans- 
verse impression; (in this specimen there is a puncture 
on its left side, but without a corresponding one on the 
right) ; on each side near the posterior angles, and almost 
touching the lateral margin, is a round impression. 
Elytra twice as long as wide; sides shghtly smuate 
above the middle, posterior margins strongly denticulate 
for two-fifths of the entire length of the elytra; apex emar- 
ginate, with two external teeth; disk deeply and regularly 
punctate-striate. Beneath, covered with wavy longi- 
tudinal lines; legs punctured, with a few short scattered 
hairs. 
Length 4 lines; breadth 1} line. 
