DEIIMORIIYTIS. 
36S 
versely rugose at the sides, the rugosities not quite extending to 
apex. 
Length, 4-5 mm. 
Hcib. Ceylon : Halle, Kandy. 
A species that is sometimes entirely metallic green or obscure 
cupreous, but always of: small size. 
651. Dermorhytis kandyensis, sp. u. 
Metallic green ; antennae blackish ; elytra with a spot near 
scutellum, a transverse cupreous band at middle not reaching the 
suture and an elongate cupreous spot near margin and apex. 
Fig. 129 . — Dermorhytis kanclyensis. 
Head strongly and rather closely punctured. Thorax remotely 
and very strongly punctured, halt' as broad again as long, convex, 
sides obsoletely biangulate in the middle. Elytra finely punctate- 
striate near the suture, apex nearly impunctate, sides strongly 
transversely rugose below the shoulders and in the middle. Legs 
more or less cupreous. 
Var. The lateral subapical elytral spot absent. 
Length 6-7^ mm. 
Hob. Ceylon : Kandy. 
Although closely allied to D. ornatissima evidently distinct. I 
have many specimens but no specimen intermediate between the 
two species. The thorax in the present insect has never any 
purplish markings and the markings on the elytra are different in 
shape, the transverse band does not extend to the suture nor 
downwards along the suture to the apex as in D. ornatissima ; the 
elytra in the last named insect are more strongly punctured and 
rugose, the punctures distinct to the apex. The species was 
formerly considered by me as a variety of D. ornatissima (P. Z S 
1887, y. 82.) 
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