882 MARTIN JACOBY 



18. A-spidLoloplxa coerixlea, n. sp. 



Below fulvous, the head, breast, the apex of the tibiae and 

 the tarsi, black ; thorax flavous with a central black band ; elytra 

 metallic dark blue , scarcely perceptibly punctured ; pygidium 

 fuscous at the middle. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head smooth, impunctate, with three small foveae placed 

 triangularly, labrum black, antennae extending to the base of 

 the thorax, fuscous, the lower three joints flavous ; thorax trans- 

 verse, very short, more than twice as broad as long, the sides 

 rounded, narrowed in front, the posterior margin but slightly 

 produced at the middle, the surface entirely impunctate, flavous 

 at the sides, the middle occupied by a longitudinal medially 

 widened black band ; scutellum large, smooth ; elytra moderately 

 convex, nearly parallel, dark violaceous blue, the punctuation 

 scarcely visible, the basal lobe but slightly produced at the 

 sides below the shoulders ; pygidium not covered by the elytra, 

 fulvous with a triangular large central fuscous band ; underside 

 fulvous, the tibiae at the apex and the tarsi as well as the 

 breast, black, abdominal segments with or without fuscous spots 

 at the side as well as at the centre of the last segment ; the 

 first joint of the posterior tarsi dilated but scarcely longer than 

 the second one. 



Garin Gheba , two specimens , May 1888. 



In this species the elytral epipleurae below the shoulders are 

 much less produced than usual but distinct and the elytra do 

 not cover the pygidium as is the case in the other species of 

 the genus; A. coerulea bears an extraordinary resemblance to 

 Coptocephala ventralis, Jac. but in this species the elytra are 

 strongly punctured in semi-regular rows ; it may however be 

 that both species are identical and that the Birmah insect is a 

 local variety with nearly impunctate elytra. 



