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nitidis, elytris unipunctatis tibiis tarsisq. violaceis ; 

 antennae fusees basi virescentes. Thorax viridis ni- 

 tidus, Elytra medio cyanea, sutura nitida, lateribus 

 virescentibus, marginibus externe violaceis, punc- 

 tum flavum unicum rotundatum in medio disci 

 locatum. Corpus subtus viride, nitidum, segmentis 

 ultimis abdominis violaceis, femoribus virescentibus, 

 nitidis tibiis tarsisq. violaceo-cyaneis. 

 In Museo. Dom Whithill. 

 This beautiful insect I have named after my 

 friend Colonel Whithill, whose superb collection of 

 Entomology from the vicinity of Bombay is quite 

 unrivalled. 



Sp. 13. Hybrida. — Mr. Stephens, in his Illus- 

 trations of British Entomology, has made several 

 original observations on this species, to which the 

 reader is referred, vid. vol. i. p. 8. &c. 



Sp. 18. Tristis. — Now an Oxycheila of De Jean. 

 M. M. Audouin and Brulle, in their Histoire 

 Naturelle des Insects, mention five species of this 

 genus. Gistl gives the same number. I have 

 figured one species, which appears to have been 

 mistaken by my friend the Comte de Castelneau. 

 His Oxy. binotata evidently is not the Oxy. bino- 

 tata of Gray, previously described. I propose 

 therefore to give it the name of Laportei, as origi- 



