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nd apex, with two transverse yellow bands, placed one a little 

 before, the other just behind the middle, the posterior band 

 usually a little the broader of the two, and the intervening space 

 about equal to it in breadth ; antennae with the first joint blue, 

 the rest black ; tibia) and tarsi black ; body 

 beneath covered with silvery-grey pubescence. 

 Head, prothorax and first autennal joint 

 very densely rugulose-punctate ; the head 

 somewhat elongated below the eyes ; the 

 prothorax sometimes more or less violaceous 

 on the middle of the disc. Scutellum finely 

 and rather densely punctulate. Elytra finely 

 and very densely punctate, the punctures a 

 little larger and more distinct on the dark 

 band next the base. Femora dark blue, or 

 -pj g2 sometimes in great part black ; densely 



Anubis inermis, White, punctate; the hind pair extend very little 

 <$ . x \. beyond the hind margin of the posterior 



yellow band of the elytra in both sexes. 



Fifth and sixth abdominal segments of the c? minute at the apex, 

 the sixth half at least as long as the fifth and always distinctly 

 visible ; fifth segment of $ rounded at the apex. 

 Length 14-19 ; breadth 3-4 mm. 



Hob. Sikhim : Darjeeling, Mungphu ; Burma : Bhamo, Teinzo, 

 Karenee (Fea), Moulmein ; Siam ; Malay Peninsula ; S. China. 



247. Anubis rostratus, Sates, Cist. Ent. ii, p. 412 (1879). 



Eelatively a little narrower than A. inermis, White ; of a some- 

 what brassy dark-blue colour ; the elytra deeper blue, opaque in 

 the middle, marked with two transverse fulvous-yellow bands ; 

 body beneath covered with silky pubescence which has a somewhat 

 golden gloss. Head strongly elongated and narrowed between 

 the eyes. Antenna? of <S do not exceed the body in length. 

 Prothorax gradually narrowed in front, densely subrugosely 

 punctured, with a short smooth line along the middle of the disc. 

 Elytra obtusely rounded at the apex. Sixth abdominal segment of 

 the S very long, longer than the fourth and fifth united. 



Length 19 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Karenee (Fea) ; Cochin China : Saigon. 



248. Amibis bipustulatus, Thorns. Syst. Ceramb. p. 569 (1865). 



Metallic green or, more rarely, dark blue and nitid ; legs and an- 

 tennae black ; elytra marked each with a yellow spot placed towards 

 the side at about one-third of its length from the apex, the spot 

 bordered with violaceous ; body beneath covered with silvery-grey 

 pubescence. Head rather short below the eyes ; densely rugulose- 

 puuctate. Antennae scarcely thickened towards the apex. Pro- 

 thorax rounded in the middle at each side, constricted at the base ; 



