363 CHRYSOMELIDJE. 



deeply longitudinally sulcate, widened at the apex, first joint of 

 tarsi shorter than the following two united ; claws appendiculate. 

 Prosternum oblong, narrowed in the middle and obsoletely dentate 

 at the sides. Highly metallic species, often very handsomely 

 marked with purplish or golden bands or spots. 



A. Thorax remotely punctured. 

 a. Elytra with cupreous or metallic purplish spots or bands. 



649. Dermorhytis ornatissima (PI. I, fig. 11), Salt/, Descr. gen. 

 $ spec. Phytoph. 1864, p. 8 ; Jac. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 82, pi. x, fig. 6. 

 Dermorhytis fasciato-rutilans, Lefev. Rev. et May. Zool. 1875, 

 p. 123. 



Metallic green ; antennae blackish ; thorax with a transverse 

 purplish-cupreous band ; elytra with a similarly coloured band at 

 base, a spot near the lateral margins and an elongate broad stripe 

 at the suture that extends to the apex. 



c? Head closely and strongly punctured, cupreous ; antennas 

 with the basal four joints more or less fulvous, rest nearly black, 

 third and fourth equal, terminal joints very elongate and pointed. 

 Thorax scarcely half as broad again as long, convex, lateral margins 

 very faintly angulate, surface deeply and remotely punctured. 

 Elytra with prominent shoulders, deeply and strongly punctate- 

 striate on the inner disc, transversely rugose at the sides. Body 

 beneath and legs cupreous. . The thorax is, as usual, more 

 transverse in shape. 



Length 5-7 mm. 



Hob. Ceylon. 



One of the handsomest species of the genus ; the thoracic band 

 extends generally across the entire disc and is deeply emarginate 

 on each side at its lower edge ; the elytra have the marginal spot 

 sometimes united with the sutural stripe forming an acute angle, 

 the transverse rugae do not extend to the inner disc. 



<J50. Dermorhytis variabilis, Jac. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 82. 



Greenish-aeneous beneath, metallic green above ; shoulders, sides 

 and apex of elytra reddish -cupreous ; basal joints of antennae arid 

 legs fulvous or piceous. 



Head finely and rather closely punctured, interstices slightly 

 rugose; clypeus not separated from the face, more closely and 

 finely punctured than the head ; labrum fulvous ; antennae slender, 

 basal five or six joints fulvous, rest piceous, third and fourth joints 

 equal, fifth longer. Thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, lateral 

 margins obsoletely angulate at middle, surface remotely and 

 strongly punctured, rather convex. Elytra subcylindrical, rather 

 convex, somewhat finely punctate-striate near the suture, trans- 



