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surface; the underside is more nitid, and usually darker in color 

 than the upper surface. The punctu ration of the head is almost 

 as in C. roseocuprea, Hope (more consistini^ of isolated punctures, 

 and less tending to a striolated appearance than in most of its 

 congeners) ; the shape and sculpture of the prothorax are nearly 

 as in C. (fneicoIHs, Hope (but without pubescent spots); the 

 sculpture of the elytra has a slightly asperate appearance, being 

 reticulately and minutely strigose, with the interstices of the 

 strigje somewhat resembling flattened granules, or it can be 

 regarded as consisting of punctures surrounded with elevated 

 margins. It is not very different from the elytral sculpture of 

 C. (eneicollis, Hope, but apfpears distinctly more asperate. The 

 short longitudinal, carina-like, tine line on the summit of 

 the head is characteristic. Probably this species is near 

 C. suhcnrinifrons, Thoms., but the description of that species 

 states that its prothorax is not transverse. 

 Victoria ; sent to me by C. French, Esq. 

 C. helJa, sp. no^'. Sat angustata ; nitida ; aureo-tenea, elytris 

 subpurpurascentibus, his et metasterni coxarum posticarum 

 abdominisque lateribus maculis albis pubescentibus ornatis ; 

 capite antice longitudinaliter late sulcato, fortiter minus 

 crebre punctulato et indistincte confuse strigato ; prothorace 

 quam longiori dimidio (postice quam antice parum) latiori, 

 sparsim sat fortiter punctulato et subconcentrice minus 

 crebre sat fortiter strigato, versus angulos posticos sat 

 depresso, lateribus leviter arcuatis ; scutello punctis non- 

 nullis magnis notato ; elytris minus confertim reticulato- 

 striolatis, intei'spatiis subgranulosis, lateribus postice 

 crenulatis. Long., 3 1. ; lat., 1 1. 

 A brilliantly nitid species (especially the head and prothorax), 

 with the head more coarsely punctured than in most of its con- 

 geners; it is perhaps near C. cwpreicoUis, Hope, but differs inter 

 alia by its prothorax entirely devoid of pubescent spots. The 

 pubescent spots on the elytra are arranged very much as in 

 C. a^neicoUis, Hope, there being one on the shoulder, one near the 

 lateral margin about the middle, one half way between the last- 

 named and the apex, and one on the suture a little in front of 

 the apex, the two nearest to the apex appearing to form an inter- 

 rupted fascia. Tlie elytra of C. ameicoUis bear some additional 

 smaller pubescent spots, which are wanting in this species (I do 

 not think the example l)efore me is at all abraded). Compared 

 wdth C. reneiconis the present insect is of much narrower and 

 more elongate form, with the puncturation of the head much less 

 close, the prothorax very evidently less transverse, and the 

 elytral sculpture (though of similar kind) markedly less close. 

 Victoria; in the collection of C. French, Esq. 



