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rotundate-angustate in front, more quickly narrowed at the apex, 

 nearly straight and parallel behind, anterior and posterior angles 

 slightly produced, acute ; above moderately convex, smooth and 

 shining, sparingly impressed with fine but distinct punctures ; 

 sides near the anterior angles obsoletely excavated ; extreme 

 lateral and basal margins indistinctly edged with piceous. Scu- 

 telliim semiovate, smooth and shining. Elytra broader than the 

 thorax, nearly twice as long as broad, nitidous, bright metallic- 

 green ; sides subparallel, apex regularly rounded ; above convex, 

 each elytron with eleven rows of distinct punctures, the first ab- 

 breviated, outer row placed on the extreme lateral margin, sub- 

 sulcate ; striae towards their apex much more finely impressed, 

 nearly obsolete; interspaces smooth and shining, impunctate; 

 each elytron also impressed with two deep foveas placed trans- 

 versely immediately below the shoulder, the outer one on the 

 lateral border larger and deeper than the other, which is ovate and 

 placed in the middle of the disk ; on the outer margin beyond its 

 middle are also several indistinct foveae. 



5. Stethomela variabilis, Baly. (PI. V.* fig. 8.) 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 3rd ser. i. p. 622. 



Anguste oblonga, convexa, rufo-fulva, nitida, capite abdomine- 

 que (hujus segmento apicali excepto) piceis, antennis nigris ; 

 elytris purpureis, fascia lata transversa prope medium rufo- 

 fulva. 



Var. A. Elytris rufo-fulvis, fascia lata basali et singulis plagd 

 magna subapicali purpureis ; abdomine rufo-fulvo. 



Var. B. Capite rufo-fulvo, elytris (basi prsetermissa) purpureis. 



Long. 4 — 5 lin. 



Hab. Mysol. 



Oblong, convex, parallel, very variable in markings and colour. 

 Head smooth ; epistome separated from the face by a deep trans- 

 verse groove, from the middle of which a short longitudinal 

 grooved line runs upwards on the face; antennae more than half 

 the length of the body, black, the two basal joints fulvous be- 

 neath ; epistome fulvous. Thorax rather more than twice as 

 broad as long; sides straight and parallel, narrowed and rounded 

 in front ; anterior angles subacute, anterior margin concave ; 

 above moderately convex, smooth, impunctate. Elytra broader 

 than the thorax, sides parallel, their apex regularly rounded, 

 each elytron impressed with eleven rows of distinct punctures, 



