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CHRYSOilELnXI. 



the large punctures and also sparingly and very minutely punctate. 

 Scutellum more or less cupreous. Elytra gradually narrowed 

 posteriorly, more finely punctured than the thorax ; puncturation 

 arranged in very closely approximate, partially regular rows, those 

 near the suture rather more distantly placed. Body beneath 

 sparingly clothed with grey pubescence and more or less cupreous ; 

 femora thickened. 



Length 5-6 mm. 



Hob. Southern Bombay : Kanara. 



The thorax in this species is of equal width, the sides are only 

 slightly narrowed at base and apex, and the general appearance 

 and sculpturing resembles a species of Abirus, but the concave 

 anterior margin of the thoracic episternum separates it at once from 

 any form in that genus. 



665. Dermorhytis speciosa, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxix, 1895, 

 p. 275. 



Metallic greenish or aeneous beneath, bright cupreous above ; 



basal joints of antennas fulvous, rest black ; margins of thorax and 



elytra greenish golden. 



"Bather narrow and elongate. Head strongly and somewhat 

 remotely punctured ; clypeus separated 

 from face at the sides, surface with a 

 few punctures, anterior portion nearly 

 smooth; labrum fulvous; antennae with 

 the basal four joints fulvous, third joint 



ILj^|^J longer than the fourth. Thorax sub- 



^j|UP^ cylindrical, half as broad again as long ; 



sides straight, biangulate at middle ; 

 surface with an obsolete transverse 

 depression at the sides, closely and 

 strongly impressed with round punc- 

 tures; interstices broader than the 

 punctures, not rugose or w r rinkled. 

 Scutellum metallic green. Elytra 

 pointed at apex, closely geminate 

 punctate - striate near the suture, 

 strongly and irregularly punctured at 

 the sides; interstices at the latter 

 place strongly transversely rugose 

 and raised into small more or less 



numerous tubercles. Legs fulvous, with somewhat of an aaueous 



Fig. 131. 

 Dermorhytis spiciosa. 



Var. Violaceous blue ; legs fulvous. 

 Length 6 mm. 



Hob. Southern Bombay : Kanara. 



Of the same shape as D.andreivesi but the elytra more elongate 

 and pointed, the thorax distinctly biangulate "at the sides, head 



