394 CHBYSOHELIDjE. 



099. Trichochrysea nitida, Jac. (Heteraspis) Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, 

 xxxii, 1892, p. 909. 



Metallic green ; antennae (the basal joints excepted) and the 

 tarsi black ; elytra clothed with white pubescence. 



Head very finely and closely punctured, covered with short 

 white and longer black hairs ; palpi fulvous ; antennae rather 

 slender, basal five joints fulvous, basal joint metallic green above, 

 fourth joint twice as long as the third. Thorax about halt' as 

 broad again as long, broader in the female, lateral margins quite 

 straight ; surface extremely closely and rather finely punctured 

 throughout, all the punctures of the same size, interstices pubes- 

 cent like the head. Scutellum finely punctured. Elytra distinctly 

 wider at base than the thorax, more distantly punctured than the 

 latter and with similar pubescence. Beneath metallic green, 

 covered with white pubescence ; intermediate tibia? deeply 

 emarginate at apex. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hob. Burma : Karennee. 



700. Trichochrysea purpureomaculata, Jac. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 

 xlii, 1898, p. 187. 



Metallic purplish-blue ; elytra with two spots below base and 

 another near apex dark purplish. 



Broad and robust, subquadrate-ovate. Head closely rugose- 

 punctate, sides and anterior edge of clvpeus metallic green. 

 Antennae black, basal four joints dark fulvous, terminal three 

 joints strongly flattened and widened. Thorax very strongly 

 transverse, subcylindrical, lateral margins nearly straight, some- 

 what sinuate, anterior margin narrowly thickened; surface 

 strongly punctured, but the punctures well separated ; interstices 

 clothed with short silvery pubescence, anterior margin narrowly 

 metallic green. Scutellum broad, strongly punctured. Elytra 

 punctured like the thorax anteriorly, the punctures becoming 

 finer toward? the apex ; interstices more finely punctate, slightly 

 wrinkled at the sides ; whole surface pubescent like that of the 

 thorax, a shallow transverse depression below the shoulders ; two 

 united purplish spots placed within this depression, another spot 

 near apex. Body beneath clothed with long grey hairs. 



Length 10 mm. 



Hob. India ; Burma : Tharawaddy. 



Allied to T. mouJioti, Baly, from Siain. 



Species recorded as Indian descriptions of which are omitted. 



Eumolpus setidosus, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. xxxix, 1866, p. 406. 

 Eumolpus picipes, Motsch. t. c. p. 407. 

 Eumolpus rugicoUis, Motsch. t. c. p. 407. 

 Eumolpus fascicularis, Motsch. t. c. p. 407. 

 Eumolpus albostriatus, Motsch. t. c. p. 407. 





