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rous allied species in the elytra being transversely truncated 

 near the suture and being there bispinose, ^. e. there is a short 

 spine at the sutural and at the external end of the truncature. 

 In G. lampriodes there is no sutural truncature, the apical 

 margin being oblique and slightly flexuous from the sutural 

 spine. 



The basal margin of the elytra in G. lampriodes is red, the 

 deflexed lateral margin purplish black ; the surface of the 

 elytra in all the numerous examples is of a beautiful dark blue, 

 the rest of the insect immaculate testaceous red. 



Lehia hipars^ Walker (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1858, 

 ii. p. 203), is a Golpodes very similar in form to the pre- 

 sent ; the black elytra, as described by the author, appear to 

 be the result of discoloration, although the surface in the type 

 specimen is glossy and appears clean. Walker's specific 

 name, I think, should not in any case be adopted, as it is 

 impossible to identify the species from his erroneous description. 



Golpodes retusus. 



Piceo-niger ; antennis, palpis, thoracis margine pedibusque dikitiori- 

 bus ; capite mox pone oculos magnos angustato ; thorace relative 

 parvo, quadrato, antice leviter rotiindato-dilafcato, postice paullo 

 sinuato-angustato, angulis posticis rectis, margine laterali expla- 

 nato-reflexo ; elytris sat late oblongis, apice oblique sinuatis iuer- 

 mibus, dorso utrinque ante medium depresso punctnlato-striato, 

 interstitiis planis, tertio tripunctato. 



Long. 8-11 liu. 



Kandy. 



Belongs to the group of Chaudoir's Division III. in which 

 the four hinder tarsi are bisulcate with the space between the 

 sulci carinate, the fourth joint unilobular, and the sutural apex 

 of the elytra miarmed. The two anterior tarsi have only a 

 very faint trace of sulci ; the four hinder tarsi are slender. 



Golpodes repletus. 



C. lampros proxime affiuis, difFert thorace multo latiore. llufo- 

 testaceus ; capite thoracisque disco castaueo-nigris ; elytris (mar- 

 gine excepto) olivacco-.-eneis ; capite parvo, ovato, post oculos 

 angustato ; thorace transverso, lateribus arcuatis et late expla- 

 nato-reflexis, angulis posticis obtusis, subrotundatis, basi utrinque 

 profunde concavo, laevi ; elytris apice ad suturara iuormibus, 

 extus sinuatis, dorso subpunctulato-striatis, interstitiis subplanis, 

 tertio tripunctato. 



Long. 8 milliio. 



Bogawantalawa. 



Closely allied to the Japanese G. lampros , from which it 



