Buprestidce from the rhilipjnne Islcmds. 311 



sliglitly rounded ; base nearly straight. Elytra irregularly 

 reticulated, cyaneous-black, each with the suture and four 

 lines raised ; between these lines are numerous irregular, 

 closely punctured, little impressions ; above the middle are 

 three larger ones, placed side by side, and below the 

 middle three other larger ones still, forming almost a 

 transverse band ; all these impressions are golden-green 

 and very finely and closely punctured. Posterior margins 

 denticulate. Beneath golden, finely and closely punc- 

 tured ; posterior margins of the abdominal segments 

 sparsely punctured and cyancous. Legs green. 



Length d^ lines ; breadth 4 lines. 



Length varies to nearly 12 lines. 



Hub. — Mindanao, Luzon, Bohol. 



A very variable species. I have made my description 

 from a specimen which seemed to me the best defined 

 form, and from which the variations could be more easily 

 expressed. The thorax is nearly ahke in all. 



Below I give the varieties. 



Type from Mindanao. 



Var. 1. Of the same colour as the type, Interstices 

 much less rugose, second and third (outer) posterior im- 

 pressions united and produced in an elongate line to the 

 apex. 



From Mindanao. 



Var. 2. Like var. I in sculpture, but bright coppery, 

 with the raised portions cyaneous-black ; legs blue. 



Luzon. 



Var. 3. More golden in colour, only one very small 

 faint anterior impression ; posterior impressions as in var. 1 

 and var. 2, but less strongly marked. 



Bohol. 



Var. 4. Like var. 3, but stouter and of a blue-green. 



Mindanao. 



Var. 5. Interstices rugosely punctured. No impres- 

 sions. 



Mindanao, Bohol. 



Chtysodema proxima, E. S. 



Aureo-viridis, thoracis elytrorumque lineis elevatis 

 cyaneis. Thorax lined dorsali elevata, angulis posticis 

 flavo-foveatis. Elytra rugositer punctata, utrinque^ lineis 

 quatuor suturaque elevatis, antice foveola rotundata, pos- 



