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the tips of the tubercles black in both sexes. The supra-anal 

 lamina of the male is broad, subquaclrate, the hindmargin 

 slightly concave ; of the female rounded and entire. Cerci very 

 short, rather broad, yellow. CoxaB and femora of female reddish 

 brown, concolorous ; coxpe of the male metallic green, femora and 

 tibite brown with golden borders. 



Male. Female. Larvai. 



Length of body ... 22 mm. 25 mm. 15 mm. 



PoLYZOSTERiA NOBiLis, Bric7ine7' (ibid, 209). 

 " Rather small, oblong. Bronze-coloured, scabrous verrucose. 

 Pronotum in front and laterally reflexed, external margin black. 

 Legs wholly brownish red. Ventral segments of abdomen tes- 

 taceous, base brownish bronze. 



POLYZOSTERIA SUBXOBILIS, SpeC. UOV. 



Elongate oval. Very dark bronze above. Head bright bronze, 

 deeply impressed, dotted, with a yellow stripe on each side. 

 Pronotum with a broad reflexed margin in front and laterally, 

 finely and irregularly wrinkled, arched in front and with an 

 acute point ; disk deeply sculptured, with a rather deep sinuous 

 transverse furrow anteriorly, the extremities of which (and some 

 other dots) bright metallic bluish green ; hindmargin straight, 

 angles produced, acute. Meso- and meta-notum similar in texture, 

 nearly equally wide. Abdomen finely punctured, segments one 

 to six with a wider or narrower, smooth, band at the base on 

 each side, acute at each end, and separated or scarcely joined in 

 the middle, in segment seven the band is broadest and contigu- 

 ous ; two penultimate segments laterally much produced, acute. 

 Supra-anal landna truncate, base broad, hindmargin much con- 

 tracted, sides straight. Cerci dark-brown, stout, apex pale. 

 Pectus with very broad, deep metallic green margin, disk pale 

 yellowish, with a lateral triangular blackish green patch on 

 meso- and meta-sternum. Coxa? pale yellowish, with one or two 

 metallic green stripes at the base. Femora brown, or greenish, 

 with few, short, pale spines. Tibise blackish brown ; spines pale 

 yellowish, tips black. Tarsi blackish above, brownish below, 

 pulvilli large. Ventral segments of abdomen pale yellowish, 

 stigmatic spots black, a narrow green band at the base, hind- 

 margin narrowly greenish, with some dark dots; last segment 

 deeply emarginate below the cerci, brown, except margin, also 

 the valvules. 



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