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3. a 7 -shaped spot or two small lines on the disc of the scntellnm. 



4. Seven rather indistinct spots on the pronotum, scutellum with a 

 small median line, two lateral and one anal spot. 



5. Five rather distinct spots on the pronotum and five larger on 

 the scntellnm (0. schwaneri, VolL). 



Long, 11-12 mill. : all from Borneo. 



Yar. c. nicobaricus, mihi, is represented in the Indian Museum by a 

 long series from the Nicobar islands. 



Above shining green ; eyes brown j antennoe black : pronotum with 

 the lateral margins much dilated, semicircularly rounded, edged black ; 

 anteriorly with a transverse row of three black spots of which the 

 median is largest, triangular, having its apex pointing hindward ; three 

 black spots arranged in form of a triangle at the posterior angles, some- 

 times but two, and then with the basal margin black, on which rests a 

 median triangular spot with its apex turning forwards and meeting the 

 triangular median spot of the anterior row : scutellum without a basal 

 elevation, no discal spot, three black spots on each side and one ai the 

 apex : body beneath entirely brassy-green, tinted violet or steel blue, 

 especially on the pectus, a small median transverse patch on the ante- 

 rior margin of each segment, also the stigmata and base of anal segment 

 violet black : feet of a steel blue, tibiae internally sordid ferruginous. 

 Long, 11-12 mill. 



Mayr describes what is probably the (5* of this variety, also from 

 the Nicobars, as having the pronotum anteriorly with three black marks 

 of which the median is largest, in the middle with two rounded black 

 marks and near the posterior margin three like them, of which the 

 median is connected by means of a black line with the median mark on 

 the anterior border : scutellum shining green, bluish on both sides 

 with three pair of blackish spots, of which the anterior and median pair 

 are rounded, the posterior transverse ; the median Y-shaped mark is 

 wanting and there is hardly any trace of the usual apical black spot : 

 the basal segments of the abdomen are for the most part violet and 

 somewhat green, the median are green with blackish-violet oblong 

 streaks, stigmata violet and base of anal segment black. 



Var. d. Brassy-green, pronotum with the sides reflexed, broader 

 than the scutellum, spotted black and with two large, rounded dorsal 

 spots, sanguineous ; scutellum sanguineous ; body beneath and feet 

 brassy, the former spotted black, the stigmata deep blue (C. formosa^ 

 Westw.j. Body long, 11-12 mill. 

 Reported from China. 



Reported from Tranquebar, Malacca, Singapore, Banca, Sumatra, 

 Java, Borneo. The Indian Museum has a long series of variety c. from 

 the Nicobar Islands. 



