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arctic species which has occurred iu Turkestan and the Caucasus ; 

 it is an oolong, subcylindrical species, of an obscure greenish 

 bronze colour, and the elytral markings are of much the same 

 character as in the two preceding species, the margins also being 

 continuously whitish testaceous. Dr. Horn appears to be right in 

 treating C. balncha. Bates, as a subspecies or variety of this species. 

 Bates compares it with C. chilolevca, to which C. suhlacerata is 

 rather closely allied, but says it is much shorter and more obscurely 

 coloured than that species. I have seen neither the type nor the 

 variety, and append a translation of Bates's description of his 

 specimens : — 



" Fuscous-purple, with the elytra subovate, narrowed towards 

 the base, with a humeral and apical crescent (the latter with the 

 .•interior horn clavate) and a ceutral fascia strongly bent and 

 dilacerate, yellow (the fascia and the humeral crescent being 

 connected by the margin); head with the forehead coarsely 

 striate, and the occiput granulate, together with the pronotum 

 furnished with scanty incumbent pubescence ; labrum (in the 

 female) roundly produced as in C. chiloleuca, with the margin 

 straight in the middle and with one tooth ; antennas with joints 

 5-11, the trochanters and the tibiae (except the apex) obscurely 

 red ; breast greenish aeneous." 



Length, 2 » 8-8| mini"!* 



Baluchistan; Kashmir: Skardo. 



The range of the specie's is very wide, according to Dr. Horn, 

 embracing the Caucasus Mts., Armenia, Transcaspia, Turkestan 

 (to Ferghana and the Pamirs), and North Persia to the frontiers 

 of Baluchistan and Kashmir. 



Geoup 8. 



Moderate-sized species (12-15 mm., rarely smaller), with 

 intricate markings; underside with all the sides, and the genae, 

 thickly clothed with white tomentose pubescence ; male occa- 

 sionally with a fascia of long setae on the underside of the fourth 

 joint of the antenna? ; sides of prouotum with long white hairs, 

 which encroach on the disc. 



Key to the Species. 



I. Male with a fascia of setae on the 

 underside of the fourth joint of the 



antennae angulata, F., p. 370. 



II. Male without a fascia of setae on the 

 underside of the fourth joint of the 

 antennae. 



i. Ground-colour obscure dark bronze, 

 with a more or less distinct greenish 

 reflection; central markings of 

 elytra large and well-marked, in 



the form of a sinuate inverted V . . sumatrensis, Herbst, p. 371. 



2b 



