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half broader than long , the sides slightly rounded before the 

 middle , the anterior angles produced outwards into a small 

 tooth, the surface with a transverse, medially interrupted de- 

 pression , impunctate ; scutellum black ; elytra reddish-fulvous 

 with a slight purplish tint, the basal margin and the epipleurae 

 to below the middle, metallic dark blue ; the surface impressed 

 with double rows of line punctures, closely placed, the interstices 

 obsoletely longitudinally costate; underside and legs testaceous; 

 abdomen dark bluish black ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi 

 as long as the following three joints together ; claws appendi- 

 culate ; anterior coxal cavities closed. 



Burmah, Bhamò, June 1886. 



D. basalts differs from D. indica in the comparative different 

 length of the joints of the antennae in the male and in the 

 elytra having a blue basal band; both species differ from the 

 typical species of the genus D. insignis in the different structure 

 of the antennae in the male, but as this character is only due 

 to sexual difference, and the other generic particulars agree it 

 would not be wise to separate the species from the type ; the 

 female of D. basalts like that of D. insignis has simple an- 

 tennae. 



Itj4. Oa^iidezea, Feae, u. sp. 



Entirely fulvous ; the second and third joints of the antennae 

 short; thorax finely and closely punctured; elytra more distinctly 

 but as closely punctured. 



Length 2 ^2 lines. 



Entirely of a pale brown colour ; head with a few scarcely 

 visible punctures, the frontal elevations strongly raised, bounded 

 behind by a deep groove; the clypeus rather broadly flattened, 

 its anterior margin nearly straight ; eyes very large ; antenna3 

 slender, two thirds the length of the body, entirely fulvous, tlie 

 second and third joints short and equal, the fourth as long as 

 the tliree preceding joints together; thorax nearly twice as 

 broad as long, tiie sides rounded, narrowly margined, the an- 



