370 CHBYSOMELIDjE. 



652. Dermorhytis igneo-fasciata (PI. I, fig. 12), Baly, Journ. Ent. 

 i, 1861, p. 283 ; Jacoby, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 83, pi. x, fig. 5. 

 Colaspis aureofasciata, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1863, p. 520. 



Dark purplish ; margins of thorax, two transverse bands on 

 elytra and their suture posteriorly greenish-golden. 



$ . Head rugose ; sides and lower portion of face dull igneous. 

 Thorax twice as broad as long, sides rounded, obsoletely biangulate 

 in the middle, anterior angles produced ; surface closely impressed 

 with large, round, deep punctures. Elytra narrowed at the apex, 

 the latter acutely rounded ; surface as closely but more strongly 

 punctured than on the thorax; interstices everywhere reticulate, 

 costate at the sides and suture ; extreme basal and lateral borders and 

 two bands igneous, first band just before the middle, second wider 

 and near the apex. Body beneath cupreous, finely pubescent. 

 In the male the thorax is not more than half as broad again as 



8-9 mm. 

 Hob. Ceylon. 



653. Dermorhytis atkinsoni, sp. n. 



5 . Metallic green ; labrum, antennae, apices of tibiae and the 

 tarsi fulvous ; elytra with three purplish- violaceous blue bands. 



Head remotely and finely punctured, with a central fovea on the 

 vertex ; clypeus distinctly separated at the sides, anterior border 

 angularly ernarginate ; palpi fulvous : antennas not extending to the 

 middle of the elytra, third and fourth joints equal, seventh to ninth 

 joints very elongate, the terminal two wanting in the type and only 

 specimen. Thorax about half as broad again as long, sides with a 

 strong tooth at and a smaller tooth below the middle ; anterior 

 portion strongly obliquely narrowed in front, anterior angles very 

 prominent ; surface strongly convex, remotely and finely punctured 

 on the disc, more strongly so at the sides. Scutellum with deep 

 fovea. Elytra wider at the base than the thorax, broadly oblong, 

 finely punctured in two or three double rows near the suture, rest 

 deeply punctured and strongly transversely rugose ; a purplish 

 short band near the scutellum that does not extend to the base 

 nor to the margins, a straight broader band at the middle and 

 a transverse spot near the apex, the latter finely punctured with- 

 out rugosities. Beneath metallic green, finely punctured and 

 pubescent. 



Length 6^ mm. 



Ha.b. India : Kulaur (Atkinson Coll., Brit. Mus.}. 



Can be distinguished by the colour of the antennae, legs and 

 tarsi and by the purple elytral bands. 



