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sinuate behind, with a deep emargination before the scutellum ; 

 two transverse grooves in a sti-aight 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. Tragocephala chloris, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 



1858, p. 57. 



Afiinis certe 7\ nohili, Fab., sed distincta. Atra, holosericea ; 

 capite flavo vel viridi, macula occipitali trigona, fascia 

 arcuata inter, et lineola lata post oculos nigris, punctulis 

 nigris quinque ant sex ordinatis in margine, sulco angusto 

 longitudinali ; thorace viridi-flavo, lineis longitudinalibus 

 tribus nigris ; dorsali latissima, duabus infra ex adverse 

 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 sutm'fc ; corpore infra flavo ; in 

 pectore lineola laterali nigra, et in utroque segmento abdo- 

 minis maculis 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. 



