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2. AgRILUS AUROVITTATUS^ (PL IV. fig. 30) . 



Hope, Tr. Ent. Soc. iv. 218. 



" Affinis Agrilo purpurato, Hope, at minor. Purpurascens, 

 capite aurato et punctato, tliorace linea longitudi- 

 nal! media aurea, binisque aliis ad latera positis ; 

 elytris cupreo-purpureis, vitta suturali aurata in sin- 

 gulo conspicua, corpore infra geneo, pedibus con- 

 coloribus.^' (Hope) . 



Brown-purple. Head bronzy. Thorax with the dorsal 

 line filled with a whitish pubescence. Elytra with the 

 suture margined in the same manner. Underside, legs, 

 and antennae, golden bronze, covered with gray pubes- 

 cence. 



Head swollen, channelled on the vertex, punctured, 

 and transversely ridged, with two smooth transverse 

 raised spaces. Thorax a quarter as broad again as long; 

 anterior margin about the same length as the base, 

 rounded ; sides nearly straight ; base bisinuate ; disk 

 punctured and transversely ridged, with a deep dorsal 

 furrow ; sides also impressed above the lateral carinse, 

 which are arcuate posteriorly. Elytra nearly three times 

 as long as wide ; sides slightly sinuate above the middle ; 

 apex somewhat pointed and very finely denticulate ; su- 

 ture finely rugose, sutural region depressed and gray-pu- 

 bescent. Underside and legs punctured and pubescent. 



Length 2| lines ; breadth f line. 



Hab. Moriatta. 



Gen. PARACEPHALA, (H. Deyr. MS.) . 



(Agrilus, pars, Hope.) 



1. Paeacephala pistacina, (PI. lY. fig. 31). 



Agrilus pistacinus, Hope, Tr. Ent. Soc. iv. 218. 



"Totum corpus supra et infra viride punctatum, antennis 

 saturatiore colore inquinatis. Caput fere rotunda- 

 turn ; thorace angulis posticis recte acutis ; elytra 

 Eenea, creberrime punctulata. Corpus infra viride, 

 sericie albida obsitum, pedibus concoloribus.''' 

 (Hope) . 



Dull bronzy-green ; cylindrical. 



Head swollen, punctured, with a few long white 

 hairs. Thorax widest in front, one quarter as broad 



