SAG 11 A. 
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Collection. A male specimen in the collection of the British 
Museum which I refer to this species came from the Atkinson 
Collection. It is of a dark violaceous colour and has the femora 
of the posterior legs very long and slender, with on the inner 
side a tomentose yellow patch near the apex, a point not 
mentioned by Lacordaire ; the thorax of this specimen is con- 
siderably longer than that of any specimen of /S', femorata or of 
allied species. 
3. Sagra empyrea, Lacord. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 31. 
Metallic violaceous or blue ; the sides of the elytra more or 
less purplish. Head distinctly punctured ; antennae extended to 
the middle of the elytra, first six joints blue, remainder black. 
Thorax about as long as broad, the anterior angles obtuse, not 
prominent, the surface impunctate. Elytra with eleven longitudinal 
rows of punctures that do not reach to the apex ; the outer rows 
on each side arranged in pairs. Mesosternum widened in front, 
feebly tridentate at its posterior margin. Abdomen : first segment 
longitudinally depressed, punctured and clothed with fulvous 
pubescence. 
Length 18 mm. 
Hob. Bengal. 
4. Sagra nigrita, Oliv. Put. v, 1807, p. 500, pi. 1, fig. 6 ; Lacord. 
Mon. Phytopli. i, 1845, p. 28. 
< S • Colour entirely black, exceptionally greenish-aeneous. 
Antennae long and slender. Thorax scarcely longer than broad, 
its anterior margin in the middle somewhat strongly produced 
the angles moderately prominent ; the sides, viewed from above, 
straight ; the surface entirely impunctate. Elytra more or less 
strongly narrowed posteriorly, deeply sulcate between the shoulders, 
distinctly depressed at base, the surface with short rows of 
punctures more or less arranged in pairs but for the most part 
invisible except under a lens, the interstices between the 
punctures finely wrinkled, coriaceous. Posterior femora very 
elongate, gradually widened at the middle with one large and one 
small tooth near the apex ; posterior tibiae curved at base, the 
apex produced into a tooth on each side. First abdominal segment 
depressed, impunctate, clothed with very short flavous pubescence 
that becomes visible only in certain lights. — 2 • Thorax broader 
anteriorly, more transverse. Posterior femora short and stout, 
scarcely extended beyond the elytra and with a small tooth placed 
on a ridge on the underside near the apex. 
Leyigtli 20 mm. 
Hab. Ceylon. Siam. 
Baly thinks this species identical with S. clentipes, Eab., who gives 
“ Africa ” as the habitat, probably erroneous (Trans. Ent. Soc. v, 
pt. vi, 1860, p. 236). 
