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anterior tibiae, by the more broadly and conjointly rounded 
apices of the elytra, and by the want of an impression on the 
last ventral segment. i Hi 
Length 9 millim. — Sub-shining; above dark bronze, the 
antennae dark brown-red, the club pitchy, the apical half of 
the terminal joint pale coloured, the scape with a bronze spot 
in front; the anterior angles of the pronotum narrowly edged 
with brown, the scutellum bright bronze; the elytra provided v 
with two pairs of small yellow spots which are situated between |. 
the 3'4 and 6° striae and are indistinctly surrounded with bluish 
black. The colour of the underside is testaceous, with the excep- 
tion of the metallic green head (the throat is pitchy with a . 
testaceous spot in the middle), the pitchy margins of the sterna- 
and coxal cavities, the bronze coloured elytral epipleurae and ‘ 
the pitchy tip of the last ventral segment; the coxae and the A 
basal two-thirds of the femora are reddish testaceous, the rest 
of the legs is black with faint metallic green tinges on the 
knees, the tibiae with an ill-defined brown spot ‘on the apical 
half; on the anterior tibiae this spot is larger and brighter co- 
loured; the claws are testaceous, and an infuscate stripe is 
present along the upperside of the anterior femora. 
Head densely punctured, sparser however on the raised middle 
portion, and much finer on the narrowed front portion. 
Prothorax subquadrate, narrowing in regularly curved lines 
to the front; the sides distinctly crenulate, almost inconspicuously 
constricted a little before the base; the front angles slightly 
prominent, the anterior margin curved backwards; the base 
deeply bisinuate, each curvature with two smaller ones, the 
lateral angles acute, the median lobe narrowly rounded; the 
upper surface covered with punctures which are larger and 
closer together on the sides and.on the base, leaving free a 
longitudinal streak in front of the scutellum and an oblique, ~ 
slightly raised basal patch between the median lobe and the | 
lateral angles; on each side of the median lobe a small im- 
pression is present. The scutellum is transverse and impressed. — 
Elytra subparallel, very broadly and conjointly rounded at — 
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