of the r<iiniJy Dupic-iti.lie. 345 



(Icopcr reddish coppor occupies tho greater part (;f tlu elytra 

 wlu-ii viewed in certaitj lij^lits. 



('apt. Kerreinaus considered these cxainph;s to be C. pro- 

 jiiuijua, Saiind., hut that is a Hatter iris-cet, with coarsely 

 punctured elytra and with a eo[)i)ery-red abdo:neu. 



C/trysasj/if aurata, Fabr. 



Bitprtstis aurata, Fabr., Maiit. lu-s. i. p. 178. 



The type of this species is in Hunter's collection in the 

 University of Glasj^ow, and Prof. J.Orahani Kerr has kindly 

 allowed me to examine it. 



It is closely allied to the species known in collections as 

 C. elnngata, Ol. The jjeneral form and sculpture are very 

 similar, but it is a slij^htly broader insect and is quite 

 differently coloured. It is ."j^i mm. long and 11 mm. bnjad 

 just below the shoulders. The thorax is obscure golden 

 green, with scarcely a trace of the coppery colour which is 

 present in elnngata. The punctuation is the same. The 

 elytra are golden green, tlie yellow tint prevailing; the outer 

 portion of the apex is tinted with light coppery. In elongala 

 the copj)er colour does not extend to the margin. The punc- 

 tuation is throughout distinctly stronger than in elongata, 

 the double lines of punctures are consequently more distinct. 

 In some lights a faint coppery tint is seen between these 

 lines. The prosternum and legs are green. The abdomen 

 golden, with light coppery shade as in eloiiyata. The type is 

 a male and has the fifth abdominal segment widely and not 

 deeply cmarginate. I notice some of the specimens of 

 elongata arc similar in this respect, others have the cmar- 

 gination deeper aiul more triangular. 



The only specimens of this species I have ever seen are 

 tlie type and two examples from Sierra Leone in Dr. Heath's 

 collection. 



In the Huprcstidic of Wytsman's '(icnera' Capt. Kcrrc- 

 nians gives Chnjsndtma splendens, Nonfried, as a synonym of 

 " CItnjKaspis uurnta, Fab." I do not know on what autliority 

 he places splcndcns in the genus Chrysaspis. From descrip- 

 tion I should not have taken it to belong to tliat genus ; but 

 anyhow it is ccrtaiidy not aurata. The insect labelled 

 " auratal! " in his collection is auriraiida, Sauiul. 



C. glabra, above described, has the colour of the elytra 

 distributed in the same manner as in aurata ; hut glabra is a 

 more convex, less parallel species, it is more brilliant, and, 

 although of a golden green, it is nevertheless of a deeper 

 colour than aurata, in which the yellow prevails. 



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