Buprestldce from the PJiiUppine Islands. 321 



Corcehus melihaiformls , E. S. 



Viridis aut viridi-cyanevis. Capite anti(;e valde et late 

 sulcato. Thorace convexo, pinictato, lateribus postice de- 

 pressis, margiuibus crenulatis. Elytris rngulosis, apicibiis 

 rotundatis, denticulatis. Subtus viridis punctatus, pilis 

 brevibiis ochraceis obsitus. 



Green, or greenish-blue. Head produced in front 

 beyond the eyes, and then ^vadely and deeply channelled, 

 and covered Avith short curved hairs, which are hardly 

 visible in some places, except from the side. Thorax 

 finely squamo-rugose, shortly pubescent, disk very con- 

 vex and regularly rounded, sides narrowly depressed 

 in front, widely at the posterior angles ; the depression 

 extending along the base to about the middle ; lateral 

 margins finely crenulate ; lateral carina short and much 

 curved. Elytra squamo-rugose, shortly pubescent ; apex 

 rounded, finely denticulate. Beneath punctured, covered 

 with short ochraceous hairs. 



Length 3| lines ; breadth 1 h line. 



II ab. — Luzon. 



A short convex species, something in shape like some of 

 the Cape species of the Melibceus crassus group ; should 

 precede elatus, Fab. 



Corabus hastanus, L. & G. 



Three specimens of the usual blue-green form, and three 

 of a golden-green colour, with rather longer somewhat 

 convergent spines to the apex of the elytra. I can, how- 

 ever, see no character sufficient to make this form into a 

 species. I beheve Monsieur Henri Deyrolle's C.bajulus 

 will also prove a mere variety of this variable species. 



Hab—1^. E. Luzon. Var. £. Mindanao. 



Crypto dactyhis phiUppinensis, E. S. 



Niger, pubescens, fasciis albis ornatus. 



Allied to the two species described by H. De>Tolle, and 

 I almost hesitate to propose it as distinct. It differs m 

 having the markings more distinct, each elytron having a 

 distinctly marked 'circular spot near the middle, and the 

 apical band being much more deeply jagged. 



The markings of the elytra are arranged thus : a zigzag 

 band at the base; a somewhat circular ring near the 

 middle, and two zigzag bands between it and the apex. 



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