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attenuate behind ; mesosternal process short, either orbicular or 

 bluntly sub-arcuate (thoreyi), and separated from the metasternal by 

 a fine suture ; anterior tibiae sharply bi-dentate in the $ , tri-dentate 

 in the 2 \ hind femora greatly developed in both, those of the $ 

 strongly dentate inwardly at apex, intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 densely fringed inwardly with light fulvous hairs, the latter strongly 

 dentate outwardly on the upper side in both sexes. 



The genus is represented in Western, Central, and Eastern 

 Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



Body and legs green or greenish-blue ; prothorax distinctly punctate 

 laterally barthi. 



Body piceous red, elytra greenish blue with the suture black ; pro- 

 thorax finely shagreened laterally relucens. 



ECCOPTOCNEMIS BAETHI, Hai\, 



Plate XLVIL, fig. 16. 

 Mitt., Munch. Ent. Ver., ii., 1878, p. 102. 



Bright green, with occasionally a faint yellowish tinge in the dorsal 

 part of the elytra ; this green hue is, however, apt to turn bluish ; 

 antennae chestnut- brown ; head moderately closely punctate, the 

 punctures deeper in the anterior part ; prothorax very little punctate 

 in the central part where there is a median impunctate longitudinal 

 space, more densely and also more deeply on the sides where the 

 punctures are separated by a space equal to twice their own 

 diameter, this punctuation is the same in either sex; scutellum 

 almost impunctate ; elytra non-costate, plainly denticulate at the 

 apex of the suture, very faintly punctulate in the male but more 

 distinctly so in the female, especially in the dorsal part where the 

 fine punctures are seriate ; pygidium transversely strigillate in the 

 female, but with transverse punctures in the male ; under side 

 glabrous, except on the anterior coxae and also on the outer face of 

 the mentum ; the abdomen is almost impunctate, but the pectus 

 is punctulate and the legs deeply punctate and plicate. 



This handsome species was first described from the Guinea 

 Hinterland. It does not seem to have been met with in the South 

 African area further south than Ehodesia, but it is said to occur also 

 at Beira. It bears a great resemblance to E. thoreyi from the West 

 Coast, and to E. latipes from West Central Africa, but the genital 

 armature of the male is very different from that of these two species, 

 as also from that of E. relucens. 



