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Genus SAGRA. 
Sagra, Fair. Fnt. Syst. i, pt. 2, 1792, p. 51. 
Type, S. femorata, Drury, from India, China and Ceylon. 
Range. Africa ; Madagascar ; India ; Ceylon ; China and some 
of the Malayan Islands. 
Characters those of the subfamily. The species included in 
this genus are sufficiently distinguished from the rest of the 
Chrysomeliclce by their large size, metallic colouring and peculiarly 
formed long hind legs. 
1. Sagra femorata, Drury, III. Exot. Ins. ii, 1773, pi. 34, tig. 5; Fair. 
(Alurnus) Spec. Ins. i, 1781, p. 115. 
Sagra tridentata, Weber, Obs. Ent. 1801, p. 62, S'. 
Sagra druryi, Lacorcl. Mon. Phytoph. i, 1845, p. 32. 
Cupreous metallic blue or green, generally more or less green 
on the elytra, sometimes entirely blue in specimens from India. 
Thorax subquadrate, the anterior angles slightly produced, the 
surface impunctate ; elytra with a more or less distinct depression 
at the base near the suture ; shoulders prominent with a few- 
short rows of fine punctures ; rest of the disc nearly r impunctate. — 
d . With rather slender and very elongate femora to the posterior 
pair of legs, these extend well bejmnd the apex of the elytra and 
are armed with a large outer tooth near the apex with a smaller 
one beyond it ; tibiae of the posterior legs curved at the base, with 
a tooth near the apex on each side ; first abdominal segment more 
or less pubescent. — 2 • Femora of the posterior legs not, or very 
slightly, prolonged beyond the apex of the elytra, the apical teeth 
on them so prominent in the replaced by a toothed ridge on 
the underside. 
Length J $ 16-20 mm. 
Hah. Throughout India and China; extending to Borneo and 
»J ava. 
2. Sagra longicollis, Lacorcl. Mon. Pliytoph. i, 1845, p. 35. 
Metallic greenish-blue. Antennae reach to about the middle of 
the elytra ; thorax elongate, its anterior angles prominent ; elytra 
deeply depressed, below the base finely coriaceous, punctate- 
striate, the striae often obsolete. — <5 . Femora of the posterior 
legs elongate, the apex bidentate ; apex of tibiae mucronate, biden- 
tate, the outer tooth large. 
Length 20-22 mm. 
Hah. “ India orient.” Assam (Atkinson). 
Very closely allied to S. femorata , but distinguished from that 
and other species of the genus by the elongate thorax which is 
about one-fourth longer than its anterior width. Lacordaire 
described this species from two specimens contained in the Dejean 
