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which differs slightly from the type described by the author, 

 but not sufficiently I think to separate it; tlie tooth at the sides 

 of the clypeus mentioned in M.^" Baly's description (probably 

 peculiar to the male sex) , is absent in the specimens I have 

 before me, but the smooth tubercle near the anterior angles 

 of the thorax is well visible ; the colour of the upper surface 

 varies from seneous to dark violet. 



48. Heteraspis quadrifaseiata , n. sp 



Obscure piceous below , above metallic green , covered with 

 long white hairs; antennae filiform, black, the basal joints ful- 

 vous ; thorax strongly punctured ; elytra as strongly punctate , 

 a narrow subsuturai and sublateral band reddish cupreous. 



Length 2 72 lines. 



Head rather finely and closely punctured, the episteme not 

 separated from the face; mandibulse and palpi piceous; antennae 

 two thirds the length of the body, filiform, the terminal joints 

 scarcely thickened, the three or four lower joints fulvous, the 

 others black; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides straight 

 very slightly converging in front , the surface strongly and 

 closely punctured , clothed with long white and black hairs ; 

 scutellum with a few fine punctures; elytra scarcely visibly 

 depressed below the base, the shoulders prominent, tuberculate, 

 the disc strongly and rather closely punctured , the punctures 

 arranged in rather regular rows but greatly diminishing towards 

 the apex , clothed with long erect white and black hairs, of a 

 metallic green colour , with a reddish cupreous , posteriorly 

 greatly narrowed band near the suture and a broader one near 

 the lateral margin, the suturai band not quite extending to 

 the apex; below obscure piceous, with metallic gloss; the legs 

 of the same colour. 



Bhamò , June 1886. 



Of this pretty little species, only a single specimen was 

 obtained. 



