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fourth and fifth a little longer, and terminating in an angle ; the 
rest simple. Thorax subcylindrical, elongated, of a deep bril- 
iant green, covered with entire transverse wrinkles, furnished 
with two small tubercles behind near the base and near a small 
longitudinal ridge; lateral spine situated a very little behind 
the middle. Scutellum triangular, depressed, of a deep 
blackish green, marked by a small lateral stria. Elytra flat, 
as broad as the thorax at its widest, rounded on the shoulder 
(with a strong depression inside of it) and at the apex, marked 
by an abbreviated longitudinal middle nervure and by a broad 
green sutural stripe, which begins behind the scutellum and 
gradually diuini in breadth until it disappears about a 
fifth or fourth from the extremity. Legs black, changing into 
blue according to position ; thighs moderately abruptly swollen; 
anterior tibiæ and all the tarsi clothed with a silvery-grey 
pubescence. 
This belongs to a different and more parallel and elongate 
type than the preceding species. 
n my collection. Apparently rare. 
7. Callichroma cineretpes. 
Litopus cinereipes, Chevr. Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 1856, p. 437. 
Minutissime coriaceum, supra viridi-cyaneum, infra viridi- 
endens; mandibulis, oculis, antennis pedibusque ater- 
rimis; tarsis posticis cinereis; thorace lateribus angulose 
producto et supra depresso, antice constricto posticeque arcte 
tricostato. 
Long. 11 lin., lat. 5 lin. 
This belongs to a different type from C. afrum; C. calca- 
leus, Oliv. Finely 
a 
green below. Head raised and longitudinally grooved be- 
left most projecting, een at the base, black, smooth, and re- 
curved at the apex. 
emarginate. Clypeus almost straight. Eyes black. Antenne 
ebo: bia 
Thorax rounded, unequal, angular near the anterior margin, 
compressed near the head, ane: the base with three transverse 
contiguous raised ridges, a strong dorsal depression on each 
side, between which is a green cruciform line, which is punc- 
tate. Lateral tubercles thick and obtuse, almost glabrous, and 
with scarcely amy punctation. Scutellum triangaler, depressed 
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BOTANICAL 
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