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rugose on tlie coppery dorsal line, impressed, especially at 

 the base ; _ on each side, near the posterior angle, is a small 

 elongate impression extending from the base; base nar- 

 roAvly edged with coppery colour. Elytra bronzy-green, 

 the shoulders of each coppery, the coppery colour extend- 

 ing, but gradually narrowing, to about three-quarters of 

 the length of the elytra. Sides slightly sinuate below the 

 shoulders, apex denticulate, surface finely punctured in 

 lines, the punctures closer together on the sides and near 

 the apex. Beneath golden-coppery, punctured, covered 

 with short pubescence, legs with green reflections. 



Length 1 2 lines ; breadth 4 lines. 



Hab. — Mindanao. 



Should follow curta, H. Deyr. 



This species varies to a dull bronzy colour above, with 

 the sides of the thorax and shoulders of a coppery brown. 



IridotcEnia trivittata, E. S. 



Cyaneo-nigra, capite am-eo, excavato. Thorace, linea 

 dorsali impressa aurea, lateribus subrugosis aureis. Elytris 

 punctato-lineatis, sutura vittaque utrinque aiu-eis. Subtus 

 cupreo-aurea, pedibus viridibus. 



Head golden, deeply excavated and piuictured between 

 the eyes. Thorax bluish-black, elongate, sides with a 

 callosity above the hind angles, base nearly straight ; dorsal 

 line finely and sharply impressed, rather wider near the 

 base, golden ; sides of the same colour ; surface finely 

 punctured on the disk, coarsely on the sides. Elytra 

 twice and a-third as long as wide, finely but irregularly 

 punctured in lines, of the same colour as the thorax, with 

 the suture and a vitta on each extending from the base 

 just above the shovdder to the apex, golden; sides sub- 

 parallel to behind the middle, then attenuate to the apex, 

 denticulate posteriorly. Beneath very finely punctured, 

 sides covered with a very fine greyish pubescence ; legs 

 greenish. 



Length 13 lines; breadth 3| lines. 



Hab. — Luzon and Mindanao, S and $ . 



Should precede cyaniceps, Fab. 



? differs in being wider and less acuminate, and having 

 the vittse of the elytra wider and greenish. 



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