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tending to the front or hind margins ; the sides are angled and 

 slightly spined. Scutellnm light green, smooth, sides margined. 

 Elytra obscure purple, the suture margined with green except 

 at the tip ; under side yellowish green with a short silken pu- 

 bescence. Legs purplish black, the femora incrassated, those of 

 the hind legs extending a little beyond the apex of the elytra ; 

 tibiae elongated, compressed. 



Length 9^ lines. 

 Hab. W. Africa (Sierra Leone) (Rev. D. F. Morgan). 



13. Callichroma Cinderella, n. s. B.M. 



C. fusco-aeneum, antennis tibiisque nigris ; femoribus runs apice 

 postice sinuato, tarsis supra pilis sericeis argenteis tectis. 



Of a brownish brassy hue, the mandibles black at the tip, 

 brassy at the base ; joints of palpi black, ferruginous at tip ; head 

 more or less thickly punctured, elongated. Thorax with the 

 sides strongly spined and smooth, the fore edge and the back 

 part of upper surface transversely striated ; hind margin of thorax 

 ringed. Scutellum with a few transverse stria?. Elytra rather 

 closely punctured, the base of the suture with a few transverse 

 striae. Femora rufous, black at the tip and at the base, thickened, 

 those of the first two pair considerably, the hind ones somewhat 

 compressed ; hind edge of femora at the tip subsinuate ; tibiae 

 compressed, black, the first two pairs with short brownish hairs ; 

 tarsi clothed above with short silvery silky hairs, the hind tarsi 

 much whiter than the others ; the soles covered with yellowish 

 hairs. 



Length 9^ lines. 

 Hab. Australia (N. E. coast) (Coll. Dring). 



14. Callichroma Cranchii, n. s. B.M. 



C. obscure viride, abdomine subtus rufo pilis aureis tecto, an- 

 tennis nigris, articulis angulatis, pedibus rufis ; femoribus 

 quatuor pnoribus incrassatis. 



Dark green, thorax above with two depressions filled with 

 short black hairs, sides with a sharpish spine. Elytra not much 

 wider at the base than throughout their length. Under side 

 covered with short golden-coloured silky hairs, abdomen rufous 

 beneath and covered with short silky golden pubescence. Head 

 short and broad. Antennae blackish, basal joint dotted and 

 striated in front ; third and following joints angled. Legs rufous ; 

 femora of first two pair incrassated ; the hind pair rather longer 

 than the elytra, tibiae compressed and somewhat incurved. 



Length 12 lines. 

 Hab. Congo (Tuckey's Exp.). 



