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which I possess several typical specimens , but differs I think 

 sufficiently to consider it as distinct. The antennie have the 

 first joint always metallic green or blue , the thorax in the 

 male, is very much more transversely-shaped and the elytra 

 are less closely and finely punctured ; in the female the rugo- 

 sities of the elytra are much more strongly marked, but do not 

 form tubercles as in C. asperatum. The blue or bronze-coloured 

 varieties do not differ except in colour. 



55. Colasposoma mxiltipiinctatixxii , n. sp. 



Obscure piceous ; abdomen black ; the basal joints of the 

 antennae , fulvous ; above cupreous ; thorax strongly transverse, 

 extremely closely and finely punctured ; elytra very closely 

 and finely punctured, the sides transversely rugose {^) tuber- 

 culate in the female. 



Length 2-2 V2 lines. 



Head rather closely, finely and evenly punctured, the epistome 

 not separated from the face , the vertex with a more or less 

 distinct longitudinal groove; labrum fulvous; mandibulse cu- 

 preous; antennoe with the terminal joints slightly dilated, fulvous, 

 the four or five apical joints fuscous ; thorax nearly three times 

 broader than long , the lateral margin rounded at the base 

 rather suddenly narrowed towards the apex, the surface trans- 

 versely convex, wàth a very obscure anterior transverse depression, 

 the disc crow^ded with small punctures which are still more 

 closely placed at the sides, the middle of the disc with a very 

 narrow longitudinal smooth line , light cupreous , the extreme 

 lateral margins metallic green ; scutellum as broad as long , 

 impunctate ; elytra slightly transversely depressed below the 

 base, more strongly and not quite so closely punctured as the 

 thorax, the punctures arranged in irregular rows, the interstices 

 also very minutely punctured, transversely rugose at the sides 

 the rugosities assuming the shape of tubercles below the middle 

 near the lateral margin ( V ) ; underside and legs piceous with 

 a sliglit metallic gloss. 



.\nn. del Mvs. fiv. di St. yat. Sf-rie 2.«. \nl. VII (i:< Maggio 1881)) 12 



