SAGBA. 7 



than the fourth ; second joint in 2 much shorter than the third, 

 the latter equal to the fourth ; basal six joints in both sexes 

 shining metallic blue, the remainder opaque black. Thorax sub- 

 quadrate, the anterior angles only slightly prominent, very obtuse, 

 upper surface opaque. .Elytra convex, depressed at base, finely 

 punctate-striate, interstices indistinctly wrinkled, the striae more 

 or less obsolete below basal portion of each elytron. J . Posterior 

 femora only moderately thickened, extended well beyond the apex 

 of the elytra, bidentate near the apex and with a patch of fulvous 

 pubescence there ; the first tooth stout ; posterior tibiae much 

 curved at base, the apex b^nt, mucronate, armed with two spines ; 

 the interior spine large, placed at some distance from the apex, the 

 outer dentate in form, apical. 



Length J 20, $ 18 mm. 



Hab. Burma. 



8. Sagra carbunculus, Hope, A. M. N. H. ix, 1842, p. 248 ; id. 



Trans. Linn. Soc. xix, 1843, p. 112, pi. 10, fig. 9; fialy, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. (2) v, 1860, p. 244 ; Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 68. 



Metallic blue ; elytra golden cupreous. Thorax quadrate, dis- 

 tinctly punctured ; elytra closely and irregularly punctured, the 

 interstices finely wrinkled. 



J . Posterior femora extended beyond the elytra, strongly 

 thickened with a narrow stripe of fulvous pubescence at their 

 lower edge near the base, the apex below denticulate, produced into 

 a flattened tridentate plate, the middle tooth of which is elongate 

 and slightly curved ; tibiae of the posterior legs arcuate at base, 

 the apex mucronate, the outer edge beneath deeply emarginate 

 near the apex, the inner edge obsoletely tuberculaie ; basal segment 

 of the abdomen flattened, remotely punctured and sparsely clothed 

 with fulvous hairs. $ . Posterior femora do not extend up to the 

 apex of the elytra, less thickened than in the 3 , obsoletely dentate ; 

 posterior tibia3 curved, simple. 



Length 9 mm. 



Hab. Northern India ; Assam ; Sylhet. 



One of the smaller species of the genus, can be distinguished 

 at once by the violaceous thorax and coppery-coloured elytra. 



9. Sagra mouhoti, Baly, Jour, of Entomology, i, 1862, p. 193. 

 Somewhat elongate ; colour purplish-blue. Thorax subquadrate, 



strongly and closely punctured ; elytra reddish-cupreous, their 

 outer margin narrowly, the edges of the suture more broadly, 

 purplish, the purple on the outer edge is not always present. 



c? . Posterior femora long, extended far beyond the apex of the 

 elytra, clothed with yellow pile beneath, bidentate near the apex, 

 the outer tooth acute; tibiae curved, canaliculate, clothed with 

 similar pubescence beneath, their apices mucronate, produced each 



