Collection. A male specimen in the collection of the British 

 Museum which I refer to this species came from the Atkinson 

 Collection. It is of a dark violaceous colour and has the femora 

 of the posterior legs very long and slender, with on the inner 

 side a tomentose yellow patch near the apex, a point not 

 mentioned by Lacordaire ; the thorax of this specimen is con- 

 siderably longer than that of any specimen of S. femorata or of 

 allied species. 



j. Sagra empyrea, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 31. 



Metallic violaceous or blue ; the sides of the elytra more or 

 less purplish. Head distinctly punctured ; antennae extended to 

 the middle of the elytra, first six joints blue, remainder black. 

 Thorax about as long as broad, the anterior angles obtuse, not 

 prominent, the surface impunctate. Elytra with eleven longitudinal 

 rows of punctures that do not reach to the apex ; the outer rows 

 on each side arranged in pairs. Mesosternum widened in front, 

 feebly tridentate at its posterior margin. Abdomen : first segment 

 longitudinally depressed, punctured and clothed with fulvous 

 pubescence. 



Length 18 mm. 



Hab. Bengal. 



4. Sagra nigrita, Oliv. Ent. v, 1807, p. 500, pi. 1, fig. 6 ; Lacord. 

 Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 28. 



<S . Colour entirely black, exceptionally greenish-aeneous. 

 Antennae long and slender. Thorax scarcely longer than broad, 

 its anterior margin in the middle somewhat strongly produced 

 the angles moderately prominent ; the sides, viewed from above, 

 straight ; the surface entirely impunctate. Elytra more or less 

 strongly narrowed posteriorly, deeply sulcate between the shoulders, 

 distinctly depressed at base, the surface with short rows of 

 punctures more or less arranged in pairs but for the most part 

 invisible except under a lens, the interstices between the 

 punctures finely wrinkled, coriaceous. Posterior femora very 

 elongate, gradually widened at the middle with one large and one 

 small tooth near the apex ; posterior tibiae curved at base, the 

 apex produced into a tooth on each side. First abdominal segment 

 depressed, impunctate, clothed with very short flavous pubescence 

 that becomes visible only in certain lights. 2 . Thorax broader 

 anteriorly, more transverse. Posterior femora short and stout, 

 scarcely extended beyond the elytra and with a small tooth placed 

 on a ridge on the underside near the apex. 



Length 20 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon. Siam. 



Baly thinks this species identical with S. dentipes, Fab., who gives 

 " Africa " as the habitat, probably erroneous (Trans. Ent. Soc. v, 

 pt. vi, 1860, p. 236). 



