390 CHBYSOMELIDjB. 



hairs and shorter white pubescence. Elytra oblong, a shallow 

 depression below base, punctij ration much finer than that on the 

 thorax, especially behind the middle but similarly pubescent. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hob. Bengal: Mandar. 



Smaller than T. vestita, Baly, the head and thorax more remotely 

 and finely punctured, but otherwise similar ; perhaps only a local 

 form of T. vestlta. 



692. Trichochrysea hirta, Fabr. (Eumolpus) Syst. Ekuth. i, 1801, 

 p. 420 ; Baly (Bromius), Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 1867, p. 96. 



" Metallic blue or gi-een, densely pubescent ; head coarsely 

 punctured, basal four or five joints of antenna? rufo-piceous 



Fig. 135. Trichochrysea hirta. 



beneath, second and third sometimes entirely so, basal joint 

 cupreo-aureous. Thorax subcylindrical, sides slightly rounded, 

 scarcely convergent in front, anterior angles armed with a short 

 tooth. Elytra much broader than the thorax, sides parallel, apex 

 broadly rounded, surface very coarsely and closely punctured. 



" Length 6-11 mm. 



" Hob. Sylhet ; Malayan Islands." (Baly.} 



It is somewhat doubtful whether Baly had the true T. hirta of 

 Fabricius before him, and whether the Indian species is identical 

 with that from Java and Sumatra. In the specimens before me 

 there is considerable variation in the amount of the pubescence, 

 which is short and silky, nearly white in some, and much longer 

 and more rigid in others. 



693. Trichochrysea quadrifasciata, Jac. (Heteraspis) Ann. Mtis. Civ. 

 Genova, xxvii, 1889, p. 171. 



Obscure piceous beneath, metallic green above ; antennas black, 

 basal joints fulvous ; elytra with a narrow subsutural and a 

 sublateral cupreous band. 



