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flattened along the suture, indistinctly depressed transversely 

 below the basilar space, very deeply punctate-striate, interspaces 

 impunctate, plane at the base, indistinctly rugulose on the 

 transverse depression, distinctly thickened towards their apex, 

 being subcostate near the outer margin and suture. Body be- 

 neath nearly glabrous, the pleura clothed with adpressed seri- 

 ceous pubescence ; abdomen smooth, impunctate, very sparingly 

 furnished with subdepressed silky hairs. Hinder thighs not 

 thickened, not extending beyond the second abdominal segments. 

 Very closely allied to C. impressa, smaller, much more coarsely 

 punctured ; antennae more slender. 



Crioceris ruficollis, Baly. 



C. oblonga, nigra, nitida, cello thoraceque rufis, hoc vix elongatulo, 

 subcyUndrico, lateribus medio modice coarctato, dorso vage sub- 

 remote punctato ; elytris convexis, nigro-cseruleis, infra basin 

 leviter transversim impressis, distincte sed tenuiter punctatis, in- 

 terstitiis planis. 



Var. A. Capita antice obscure rufo ; antennis basi piceis. 

 Long. 3j lin. 

 Hab. Northern China. Collected by Mr. Fortune. 



Face triangular, clothed with aureo- sericeous pubescence; 

 antennse moderately robust, slightly compressed, subperfoliate, 

 more than half the length of the body. Scutellum rufo-piceous. 

 Elytra broadly oblong, much broader than the thorax. Pubes- 

 cence on the under surface of the body silvery white, that on 

 the legs with a golden tint. Abdominal segments each with a 

 transverse groove, which is clothed with a single row of sub- 

 erect silvery hairs. Hinder thighs very slightly thickened, their 

 apex not reaching beyond the apex of the third abdominal 

 segment. 



Lema quadriplagiata, Baly. 

 Jj. oblongo-elongata, fulva, nitida, subtus sparsim fulvo-sericea, 

 ore supra nigro; antennis modice robustis, corporis longitudine 

 brevioribus, articulo tertio secundo duplo longiore ; thorace cylin- 

 drico, subquadrato, lateribus medio valde constrictis, dorso Isevi, 

 pone medium profunda transversim sulcato, disci medio obsolete 

 lineatim punctato; elytris infra basin obsolete transversim im- 

 pressis, sat fortiter punctato-striatis, striis ad apicem sulcatis, in- 

 terspatiis postice elevatis, utrinque plagis magnis duabus obscure 

 violaceis. 



Var. A. x\ntenais (basi excepta) fuscis ; corpora subtus fusco 

 variegata. 



Var. B. Elytris totis metallico-cseruleis. 

 Long. 2 1 lin. 

 Hab. Pachybouri. Collected by the late M. Mouhot. 



This species may be separated from L. histrio, Clark, by the 



