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HALTICIXJE. 



Type in the British Museum. 



The above description is taken from specimens from the Kraatz 

 Collection in the British Museum, which bear Weise's labels of 

 identification and which I take to be authentic. 



84. Hespera cyanea, sp. nov. 



Body oblong. Colour blue-green; antennae, underside and 

 legs, black. 



Head with the vertex more or less coarsely punctate, with a 

 transverse impression above the eves crossed by a median longi- 

 tudinal impression ; interantennal space with a slight elevation; 



Fig. 54. — Hespera cj/anea, Maulik. 



face sparsely covered with a few scattered hairs. Antennas 

 slender, extending to a little beyond the middle of the elytra ; 

 first segment long and club-shaped, second much smaller than 

 first, third a little longer than second, fourth somewhat longer 

 than third ; the following segments nearly equal to each other. 

 Prothorax broader than long, anterior and posterior mnrgins 

 nearly straight, sides straight, posterior angles widelv rounded, 

 anterior angles almost right angles; surface gentlv convex from 



