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is described as fulvous, with metallic blue elytra, the extreme 

 apex of the latter rufous ; all the other structural characters 

 as well as the shape of the thorax, the anterior black margin 

 of the clypeus and the black labrum, agree with the author's 

 description and it is therefore probable that the elytra of L. Ste- 

 vensi vary greatly in the amount of metallic blue or fulvous. 



12. I^ema, rixfb-testacea, Clark. 

 Several specimens from Bhamò. 



13. Crioceris seuiinig-x*a< , n. sp. 



Black, clothed with yellowish pubescence below ; above ful- 

 vous ; the seven last joints of the antennjB transverse ; thorax 

 with a row of punctures at the middle ; elytra distinctly punctate- 

 striate , a space below the shoulders impunctate , the anterior 

 portion fulvous, the posterior one, black. 



Var. Elytra entirely fulvous. 



Length 4 lines. 



Head strongly constricted behind the eyes ; the lateral grooves 

 deep, the space within it rugose; eyes very deeply notched, the 

 intruding space thickly pubescent ; lower part of face sparingly 

 pubescent; antenna? short, the first four joints shining, short, 

 the others very broadly flattened and transverse, tlie terminal 

 joints sometimes stained with fuscous ; thorax about one half 

 longer than broad , narrowed in front , the sides not deeply 

 constricted, the surface impunctate with the exception of a few 

 punctures at the middle and near the anterior margin, fulvous, 

 the basal margin generally paler coloured ; scutellum sparingly 

 pubescent ; elytra without basal depression, regularly and rather 

 strongly punctured, the punctuation more finely impressed but 

 distinct to tlie apex, the latter slightly costate ut the interstices, 

 the suturai and lateral margin accompanied l)y a deep groove, 

 a subquadrate space at the sides below the shoulders, im[)unctate, 

 the anterior third portion of the elytra fulvous, the other two 



