DESCRIPTION. 



Body glabrous, blackish-green, slightly tinged 

 with brassy : head punctured : antennx robust, 

 black, hardly attaining the base of the thorax; 

 joints short, conic, acute at the edge of the tip ; 

 second joint rufous, subglobular: eyes oval, not 

 elongated : labrum and palpi blackish : thorax 

 subglobular, punctured, punctures sparse, not 

 profound : elytra green, slightly tinged with 

 olivaceous and brassy, somewhat rugose; two, 

 rarely three, obsolete, longitudinal lines on the 

 disk, and another near the external margin : 

 beneath blackish-green. 



Variety, a. Body green, destitute of the brassy 



tinge. 

 Variety, b. Head and thorax black ; elytra 



bluish. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



This species is less robust than the preceding, 

 and may be readily distinguished from others by 

 the rounded thorax and very short antennae, the 

 remaining characters of which latter agree with 



PLATE III. 



