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than the fourth ; second joint in $ much shorter than the third, 
the latter equal to the fourth ; basal six joints in both sexes 
shining metallic blue, the remainder opaque black. Thorax sub- 
quadrate, the anterior angles only slightly prominent, very obtuse, 
upper surface opaque. Elytra convex, depressed at base, finely 
punctate-striate, interstices indistinctly wrinkled, the strise more 
or less obsolete below basal portion of each elytron. — d . Posterior 
femora only moderately thickened, extended well beyond the apex 
of the elytra, bidentate near the apex and with a patch of fulvous 
pubescence there ; the first tooth stout ; posterior tibiae much 
curved at base, the apex bent, mucronate, armed with two spines ; 
the interior spine large, placed at some distance from the apex, the 
outer dentate in form, apical. 
Length d 20, 5 18 mm. 
Hab. Burma. 
8. Sagra carbunculus, Hope, A. M. N. II. ix, 1842, p. 248; id. 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xix, 1848, p. 112, pi. 10, fig. 9; Laly , Trans. 
JEnt. Soc. (2) v, 1860, p. 244 ; Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 68. 
Metallic blue ; elytra golden cupreous. Thorax quadrate, dis- 
tinctly punctured ; elytra closely and irregularly punctured, the 
interstices finelv wrinkled. 
d . Posterior femora extended beyond the elytra, strongly 
thickened with a narrow stripe of fulvous pubescence at their 
lower edge near the base, the apex below denticulate, produced into 
a flattened tridentate plate, the middle tooth of which is elongate 
and slightly curved ; tibise of the posterior legs arcuate at base, 
the apex mucronate, the outer edge beneath deeply emarginate 
near the apex, the inner edge obsoletely tuberculate ; basal segment 
of the abdomen flattened, remotely punctured and sparsely clothed 
with fulvous hairs. — $ . Posterior femora do not extend up to the 
apex of the elytra, less thickened than in the d , obsoletely dentate ; 
posterior tibiae curved, simple. 
Length 9 mm. 
Hab. Northern India ; Assam ; Sylhet. 
One of the smaller species of the genus, can be distinguished 
at once by the violaceous thorax and coppery-coloured elytra. 
9. Sagra moilhoti, Baly, Jour, of Entomology, i, 1862, p. 193. 
Somewhat elongate ; colour purplish-blue. Thorax subquadrate, 
strongly and closely punctured ; elytra reddish-cupreous, their 
outer margin narrowly, the edges of the suture more broadly, 
purplish, the purple on the outer edge is not always present. 
d . Posterior femora long, extended far beyond the apex of the 
elytra, clothed with yellow pile beneath, bidentate near the apex, 
the outer tooth acute; tibise curved, canaliculate, clothed with 
similar pubescence beneath, their apices mucronate, produced each 
