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lv) Elytra'eyaneéotis; with ‘alwiolaceous tingeseeli. a4 0k. 2 ieee. ceil 
Elytra piceous, with violaceous, cupreous, ¢ or greenish ae! Jageat tans 
12. Median fascia on elytra distinct, irregular, and composed ee siieabae hair, bor- 
dered in front and behind with whitish ones; apex of abdomen with a series 
of obsolete teeth. ......-.-. ---.--------. distinctus Waterhouse. 
Median fascia rather indicts dqomenaa and composed of fine whitish hair ; 
apex of abdomen with distinct teeth..................... laetus Waterhouse 
13. Elytra piceous, with a strong violaceous ee each elytron with two cinereous 
pubescent areas, inclosing a round dark space, one near the middle close to 
the lateral carina, the other near the apex.................. elegans Fisher. 
Elytra piceous, with cupreous or greenish fae. eae cidaiee eo ceesee Le 
14. Elytron with the pubescent space at apex iveloniee! a sauna foe area. 
ornatus Fisher. 
Elytron with the pubescent space at apex not inclosing a round dark area. 
pulverosus Waterhouse. 
BRACHYS FULGIDUS, new species. 
Female.—Broadly ovate, slightly longer than wide, broadly rounded 
in front, shghtly narrower behind than in front, strongly shining 
and nearly glabrous; head bluish-green; pronotum, scutellum, and 
elytra aureous, with a strong cupreous tinge, the pronotum with the 
anterior angles greenish; beneath piceous, with a strong greenish 
reflection. 
Head nearly flat, longitudinally grooved from occiput to epistoma, 
the groove becoming deeper and broader behind the epistoma, and 
with a broad, shallow depression on the occiput; surface glabrous and 
irregularly punctate, the punctures large, deep, widely separated, and 
becoming more obsolete on the occiput; intervals densely, obsoletely 
granulated, and finely reticulate, the reticulation irregular and widely 
separated; epistoma wide between the antennal cavities, surface de- 
pressed, with a feeble transverse carina in front of the depressed area. 
Pronotum strongly flattened, about three times as wide as long at 
middle, distinctly narrower in front than behind, widest at base; 
sides arcuately attenuate from base to anterior angles; anterior mar- 
gin arcuately emarginate for the insertion of the head; base trans- 
versely truncate to the elytral lobe, then turning obliquely backward to 
the scutellum, in front of which it is nearly truncate; posterior angles 
nearly rectangular and feebly rounded; surface glabrous and uneven, 
with an obsolete depression extending obliquely backward from the 
anterior angles to the median part, sparsely and irregularly punctate, 
the punctures very shallow and more numerous at the sides; intervals 
obsoletely granulated, and with a few very fine punctures. Scutellum 
nearly smooth, broadly triangular, anterior margin truncate. EHlytra 
scarcely as wide as pronotum at base; humeral angles broadly rounded ; 
sides parallel to near middle (feebly sinuate at basal fourth), then 
arcuately attenuate to the tips, which are conjointly broadly rounded, 
the lateral margins feebly serrate toward the apex; each elytron with 
a rather deep, broad depression at the base, and the disk rather 
