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sinuate behind, with a deep emargination before the scutellum ; 

 two transverse grooves in a straight line start from the lateral 

 angle, which is sharp and flattened. Scutellum rounded, green- 

 ish. Elytra of an ochre-colour with a greenish tinge and with 

 a humeral black spot and a broad common band of the same 

 colour, terminating before the middle ; it commences square 

 (and has at its centre, behind the scutellum, a small oblong- 

 green spot), withdraws a little further on, and gives out on 

 each side before its termination a small direct branch ; the 

 posterior half is also velvet-black ; its anterior margin ad- 

 vances angularly to the front near the suture ; towards the 

 middle and the centre of its extent are two square, green, 

 little drops, which are placed on a transverse line, and of 

 which the exterior is a little largest ; another green mark, in 

 the form of a thick comma, is situated behind, and is almost 

 united to the internal droplet. Underside of thorax (except 

 the breast, which is ochreous) and abdomen green ; middle of 

 the latter marked longitudinally with a broad shining black 

 band, and on each of the segments a small transverse black 

 stroke. Legs partly green, appearing black on the denuded parts. 

 Unique. In my collection. 



3. Tragoc&phala chloris, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 

 1858, p. 57. 



Affinis certe T. nobili, Fab'., sed distincta. Atra, holosericea ; 

 capite flavo vel viridi, macula occipitali trigona, fascia 

 arcuata inter, et lineola lata post oculos nigris, pimctulis 

 nigris quinque aut sex ordinatis in margine, sulco angusto 

 longitudinali ; thorace viridi-flavo, lineis longitudinalibus 

 tribus nigris ; dorsali latissima, duabus infra ex adverso 

 oculis ; elytris fasciis transversalibus duabus integris viri- 

 dibus, prima infra basin, versus marginem attenuata, ante- 

 rius per punctum humerale nigrum, et retro per ramulum 

 obliquum nigrum, secunda versus medium posita, angulata 

 supra ad medium, dein oblique flexa secundum suturam ; 

 ultra notulis duabus, transverse dispositis, laterali viridi 

 interna albida, macula ovali transversa viridi ante apicem, 

 notulaque albicante in imo suturse ; corpore infra flavo ; in 

 pectore lineola laterali nigra, et in utroque segmento abdo- 

 minis rnaculis tribus nigris, mediis quadratis ad limbum 

 posticum, sed lateralibus ad limbum anticum adnexis ; pe- 

 dibus flavescentibus, femoribus versus medium nigro macu- 

 latis tibiisque extus nigro limbatis. Varietas, prima fascia 

 elytrorum in sutura late interrupta. 



Long. 9-10 lin., lat. 2-2| lin. 



