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or less concave, sparsely granulated and not extended on to the 

 sides, whence the lateral bands run straight back instead of taking 

 an oblique direction as in tbe male. Elytra densely and rather 

 strongly punctured ; each with three slightly raised longitudinal 

 lines two dorsal and one lateral. 



Length 15-32 mm. 



Hob. India : Darjeeling, Bombay, Mysore, Madras ; Ceylon : 

 Assam ; Burma. Siam, Malay Peninsula. Java, Celebes, Philip- 

 pines. Egypt ; Mauritius ; Hawaiian Islands. 



100. Xystrocera festiva, Thorns., Essai Classif. Ceramb. p. 251 (1861) ; 

 Pascoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iii, p. 506 (1869). 



Testaceous red, the antennae black ; the sides of the pro- 

 thorax metallic green or blue and the upper surface of the same 

 colour except over a large median subcordate spot which is 

 testaceous yellow ; the elytra testaceous yellow along the inner or 

 sutural half of each, metallic green or blue along the outer 

 half and around the apex; legs testaceous, the tibise dark 

 brown except at the apex, the femoral peduncles dark brown 

 in their distal half. Antenna? nearly twice as long as the body in 

 the <$ , barely longer than the body in the $ ; strongly asperate, 

 and more" or less denticulate beneath, in the cJ , less strongly 

 asperate in the $ ; third and fourth joints and the fifth to a less 

 extent dentate beneath at the apex. Disc of prothorax sparsely 

 and subasperately punctate, the prosternum and sides finely 

 and rather densely punctulate ; in the <$ , a definite smooth line 

 with a strongly sinuous course forms the boundary between the 

 two differently punctured areas. In the $ disc of prothorax 

 finely, subasperately punctate, the sides and prosternum sparsely 

 punctate. Elytra distinctly, but not very densely punctate ; 

 each rounded and unarmed at the apex. 



Length 30-38 ; breadth 7-9 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Karenee (fea). Sumatra ; Java ; Borneo. 



Genus OPLATOCERA. 



Oplatocera, White, Cat. Col. B. M., Longic. p. 121 (1853) ; Lacord. 



Gen. Coleopt. viii, p. 231 (1869). 

 Hoplitocera, Gemm. fy Har. (as an emendation of the name) Cat. 



Col. p. 2795 (1872). 



Type, 0. callidioides, "White. 



Range. Sikhim and Bhutan. 



Head rather strongly concave between the autennal supports ; 

 the latter prominent with their openings facing outwards ; eyes 

 moderately large, deeply emarginate in front, slightly sinuate 

 posteriorly ; front moderately large, subvertical, not distinctly 

 marked off from the clypeus, anteclypeus rather large, coriaceous 

 near its front border; mandibles straight at base and almost 



