BuprestidcE from the Philippine Islands. 319 



gin denticulate. Beneath punctured, with the sides 

 coppeiy-bronze colour, middle bright green ; antennae 

 coppery. 



Length ()\ lines ; breadth 2| Hues. 



Huh. — Luzon. 



Closely allied to Indica, L. & G., but differs in the 

 shorter, squarer thorax, the more coppery face and the 

 coppery antennae. 



Corczbus ccslestis, E. S. 



Purpureo-cyaneus, viridi-micans. Scutello cupreo-pur- 

 pureo. Elytrorum apice multispinoso. Subtus ajneus, 

 abdominis lateribus albo-maculatis. 



Bright cyaneous, shining, with purple and green tints 

 in certain lights. Scutellum coppery-purple colour. Head 

 produced between the eyes and narrowly but deeply chan- 

 nelled. Thorax vermiculate in front, largely punctured 

 posteriorly, disk much raised and very convex, sides nar- 

 rowly depressed, lateral margins very finely crenulate. 

 Elytra very finely punctured, each with a very obsolete 

 raised line down the middle, especially evident near the 

 apex ; sides each with three very faint impressions, giving 

 them a sort of undulated appearance ; lateral mai-gins very 

 finely crenulate, apex of each truncate, with six spines, of 

 which the second and third fi'om the suture are farthest 

 apart. Beneath bronzy, rugosely punctured, each side of 

 the abdomen with four small, round, white, pubescent 

 spots. 



Length 7 lines ; breadth 2| lines. 



Hab. — East Mindanao. 



Should follow violaceipennis, E. S. 



Corcebus Cisseoides, E. S. 



Vlridi-aureus. Thorace valde punctato, lateribus och- 

 raceo-pilosis. Elytris utrlnque maculls quinque albidls 

 ornatis, aplclbus rotundatis. Subtus punctatus, lateribus 

 ochraceo-pilosis. 



Head and thorax bright golden-green, very coarsely 

 and closely punctured, the former impressed between the 

 eyes, the impression filled with white ])ubescence, the latter 

 with the sides widely depressed and ochraccous ])ubescent, 

 lateral margins very finely crenulate. Base deeply bi- 



