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tures, and a few coarse punctures are also placed along the 

 extreme base ; on either side of the base is a shallow punctured 

 fovea ; the posterior margin blue-black in the centre. Scutellum 

 smooth, blue. Elytra nearly four times the length of the thorax, 

 apex obtusely rounded, their sides more nearly parallel than 

 in P. cyanicornis (Fabr.), slightly excavated behind the shoulders ; 

 surface irregularly punctured, the punctures less distinct towards 

 the apex, disposed in irregular striae near the suture; just before 

 the middle is a broad, deep blue, flexuose, transverse band, from 

 which a broad process passes upwards along the suture to the 

 base ; below the middle is a second band, from which a narrower 

 process runs downwards to the apex. Beneath deep blue, sides 

 and apex of the abdomen red. 



The Var. A is the original cyanipes of Fabricius, and the typi- 

 cal form is the sinuata of Olivier. 



2. PJnjllocharis undulata, Fabr. 

 Chrysomela undulata, Fabr. Syst. El. i. p. 438. 

 Elongata, parallela, convexa, nigro-caerulea, nitida ; thoracis 

 lateribus, pectore, abdominis limbo, elytrisque rufis ; thorace 

 basi crebre, disco sparse punctato ; elytris punctato-striatis, 

 striis pone medium confusis, suturii, ad apicem et infra basin 

 dilatatd, fasciisque latis undulatis duabus, una ante, altera 

 pone medium positis, nigro-cyaneis. 

 Var. A. Linea suturali in medio interrupta. 

 Long. 4| lin. 



Hab. Java, Singapore, Malacca, Timor. 



Similar in form to P. cyanipes; thorax more closely punc- 

 tured at the base ; anterior half of elytra more regularly punc- 

 tate-striate. Head rufous ; antennae nearly half the length of 

 the body, blue-black. Thorax transversely depressed at the 

 base, the depressed portion closely covered with distinct punc- 

 tures. 



3. Phyllochans violaceipennis, Baly. 

 Journ. of Entom. i. p. 292. 



Elongata, postice pauUo angustata, rufo-testacea, nitida ; elytris 



violaceo-cupreis, nitidissimis ; antennis nigris. 

 Long. 2| lin. 



Hab. New Guinea (Dorey). 

 Elongate, slightly narrowed behind, shining rufo-testaceous ; 



