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the middle of the head from the epistoma to the occiput, and on each side of the 

 central line of the thorax, are nearly black, with a brassy-green tinge. The thorax 

 is strongly transverse, quadrate, with the sides rounded anteriorly. The basal fold 

 and lateral margins of the elytra are testaceous ; the pale belts are composed of 

 very short lines forming together strongly zig-zag fascias. 



Ega ; rare. 



Coptodeea lebioibes, n. sp. Pallide testacea, capite obscuriore, elytris 

 viridi-ceneis, fasciis duabas flescuosis, pallidis, profunde punctato- 

 striatis : thorace basi medio late producto ; antennis articulis brevibus, 

 .crassis, sub-moniliformibus. Long. 4 millim. Lett, elytr. 2 millim. 



•Closely allied to the preceding, but smaller, the middle part of the base of 

 the thorax distinctly produced and rounded, and the joints of the antennse much 

 thicker and shorter. The general colour is pale testaceous, with the elytra 

 brassy-green ; the pale belts are narrower than in 0. ctvpreotincta, the first being 

 interrupted by the green sutural interstice, and both separated from the pale lateral 

 margin, as usual, by the dark ninth interstice. 



Ega. In ray own and the Baron Chaudoir's collection. 



Coptodeba lineolata, n. sp. Piceo-brunnea, labro, palpis, antennis 

 pedibusqiie testaceis ; supra vice nitida ; thorace transverso, quadrato, 

 lateribus niodice rotundatis, angulis posticis hand prominentibus ; 

 elytris profundi punctata -striatis, fasciis macular ibus duabus, e lineolis 

 parvis, discretis, formatis. 



Long. 5—6 millim. Lat. elytr. 2% -millim. $ ? . 



Destitute of metallic lustre ; head (with the eyes) narrower than the thorax, 

 the latter scarcely narrowed behind, and but little rounded on the sides anteriorly, 

 the posterior angles not prominent, and the base line nearly straight. The pale 

 fasciae on the elytra are formed of remarkably distinct and pale lmeoles ; five forming 

 the first belt (2 short ones on the 2nd and 3rd, a much longer one on the 4th, and 2 

 shorter ones again on the 5th and 6th interstices), and 6 or 7 forming the second, 

 all of which are short and separated from each other. The labrum is much elongated 

 and the antennse are formed of slender cylindrical joints. 



New Gruinea. Collected in numbers by Mr. "Wallace. 



CoPTODERi ctakella, n. sp. Supra lodte cyaneo-viridis, thoracis elytro- 

 rumque marginibus lateralibus rufis, his macula utrinque discoidali 

 prope basin, fasciaque postica abbreviata communi valde curvata, 

 testaceo-rufis ; corpore infra piceo-nigro, oris partibus, antennis pedi- 

 busque testaceo-rufis. Long. 7 millim. Lat. elytr. 2>\ millim. $ $ . 



A handsome species allied to others described by Schmidt Gobel from Burmah. 

 The head with the eyes is narrower than the thorax ; the latter is transverse 

 quadrate, rounded outwards in the middle, and with strongly projecting hind angles; 



