148 MARTIN JACOBY 



1. Sag-x-a l>r*evipes, n. sp. 



Obscure dark purplish blue , opaque ; thorax iinpunctate ; 

 elytra with a few punctures at tlie base only, finely wrinkled ; 

 posterior femora scarcely extending ])eYond the elytra. 



Mas. Intermediate femora dilated into a triangular tooth ; 

 posterior femora glabrous, tridentate near the apex, their tibia? 

 with a single tooth near the apex, the latter itself mucronate. 



Length 8 lines. 



Although only a single male specimen obtained at Kawkareet 

 in Tenasserim, is contained in this collection, I cannot identify 

 the insect with any of those described by Lacordaire or since. 

 S. brevipes differs from those species in which the posterior 

 femora have three teeth near the apex , in its opaque dark 

 bluish general colour , in the triangularly dilated intermediate 

 femora and in the impubescent first a])dominal segment. 



The head is ratlier elongate, rugose near the inner margin 

 of the eyes , this space bounded by the usual deep oblique 

 grooves, the labrum is furnished with long fulvous pubescence: 

 the antennae are long and slender, the joints being gradually 

 lengthened ; the thorax is slightly longer than broad, narrowed 

 towards the base, the anterior angles are thickened into a blunt 

 round tubercle and the anterior margin is slightly produced in 

 the middle and transversely depressed in front of the latter, 

 the surface is entirely impunctate ; the elytra have no visible 

 basal depression and are impressed near the base with the 

 commencement of double rows of fine punctures , the rest of 

 the surface is finely wrinkled and rugose ; tlie femora have no 

 tomentose patch at the base and the intermediate tootli is the 

 largest of the three placed near the apex ; the tibiae end into 

 a distinct point or spine and have a single tooth placed near 

 the apex ; the posterior femora scarcely exceed the length of 

 the elytra. 



