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eyes large and partially covered by the thorax. Thorax short, 

 not much narrower in front than behind, of a reddish purple, 

 opaque, densely punctate, and somewhat rugose in the middle. 

 Scutellum purplish black, thinly punctate, and curvilinearly 

 triangular. Elytra nitid, viridi-seneous on the suture, and coppery 

 red and metallic green on the rest of their surface, with eight 

 rows on each elytron of large deeply impressed punctures and 

 with the interstices smooth and minutely punctate. Body beneath 

 and legs, black, subnitid, and finely punctate. 



630. — Amartgmus punctipennis. n. sp. 

 Length 6 lines. 

 Oblong-ovate. Head black, and rather thinly punctate, with 

 the eyes partially covered by the thorax. Thorax of a coppery 

 green, subopaque, and finely but not densely punctate. Scutel- 

 lum greenish black, triangular, the sides a little rounded. Elytra 

 very nitid, viridi-seneous with the suture and a broad median vitta 

 of a purplish red, and marked with eight regular rows of strong 

 punctures — larger and more distant than in tlie last species — on 

 each elytron, and with the interstices smooth and minutely and 

 thinly punctate. Under surface of body and legs black, subnitid, 

 the former very finely striolate. 



631. — Amarygmds obsoletus. n. sp. 

 Length 6 lines. 

 Ovate. Head black, and punctate, with the ej'es almost com- 

 pletely covered by the thorax. Thorax short, broad, not much 

 narrowed in front, green clouded with coppery red, subopaque, 

 and finely punctate. Scutellum black, smooth, curvilinearly 

 triangular. Elytra more convex than in most species, green 

 with numei-ous patches of coppery red, subopaque, and punctate, 

 with the usual rows of punctures almost if not quite obsolete. 

 Under surface and legs black, nitid, finely and thinly punctate. 



632. — Amarygmus rugosipennis. n. sp. 

 Length 8 lines. 

 Elongate-ovate. Head black, and punctate, with the eyes 



