6 CHBYSOMELID^E. 



5. Sagra brevipes, Jac. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 1889, p. 148. 



c? . Obscure dark purplish-blue, opaque. Head rugose near the 

 eyes, labmm with long fulvous pubescence ; antennae long and 

 slender. Thorax slightly longer than broad, anterior angles strongly 

 thickened, formed into a round blunt tubercle, the disc entirely 

 impunctate. Elytra without basal depression, a double row of 

 punctures at base, the rest impunctate, finely wrinkled. Inter- 

 mediate tibiae dilated at apex into a triangular tooth ; posterior 

 femora glabrous, very short, scarcely extended beyond the apex of 

 the elytra, tridentate at apex ; posterior tibiae M ith a single 

 mucronate tooth at apex ; abdomen : first segment glabrous. 



Length 16 mm. 



Bab Tenasserim : Kaukaraik (Fed). 



This well-marked species is distinguished from all others 

 belonging to the genus by its remarkably short posterior femora, 

 by the dilated intermediate tibiae and by the glabrous first abdo- 

 minal segment. 



6. Sagra jansoni, Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. (2) v, 1860, p. 243. 



Elongate, parallel-sided ; rufo-aureous, metallic green, or blue ; 

 antennae purple, their basal half metallic green. Head deeply punc- 

 tured. Thorax slightly longer than broad, sides slightly concave, 

 above profoundly but not closely punctured, transversely depressed 

 in front of the basal margin. Elytra distinctly depressed 

 below the base, their surface finely punctate-striate throughout, 

 the interstices between the punctures finely vermiculate-reticulate. 

 Body beneath more conspicuously metallic green. Anterior and 

 intermediate femora moderately incrassate, tibiae strongly curved. 

 cJ . Intermediate femora prod'uced beneath into a flattened acute 

 tooth ; hinder femora extended beyond the apex of the elytra by 

 a fourth of their length, elongate subovate, beneath notched at the 

 apex and armed with two short stout teeth, the anterior tooth the 

 larger ; at the base there is a large patch of yellow pubescence on 

 the inner side ; posterior tibiae mucronate at apex and armed just 

 before the apex externally with a stout spine, internally with a 

 very short tooth ; basal abdominal segment longitudinally excavate, 

 coarsely punctured and covered with yellow pubescence. $ . 

 Posterior femora not extended beyond apex of elytra and armed 

 with a short denticulate ridge beneath. 



Length 12-14 mm. 



Hob. Madras. 



7. Sagra longipes, Baly, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xiv, 1878, p. 337. 



Elongate-ovate, greenish-blue, shining. Antennae three-fourths 

 the length of the body in the d , shorter in the $ ; second joint 

 in d somewhat shorter than the third, the latter slightly longer 



