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CHRYSOMELIDJE. 
652. Dermorhytis igneo-fasciata (PI. I, fig. 12), Baly, Journ. Ent. 
i, 1861, p. 283 ; Jacoby , P. Z. S. 1887, p. 83, pi. x, fig. 5. 
Colaspis aureofasciata, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. 1863, p. 520. 
Dark purplish ; margins of thorax, two transverse bands on 
elytra and their suture posteriorly greenish-golden. 
5 . Head rugose ; sides and lower portion of face dull igneous. 
Thorax twice as broad as long, sides rounded, obsoletely biangulate 
in the middle, anterior angles produced ; surface closely impressed 
with large, round, deep punctures. Elytra narrowed at the apex, 
the latter acutely rounded ; surface as closely but more strongly 
punctured than on the thorax ; interstices everywhere reticulate, 
costate at the sides and suture ; extreme basal and lateral borders and 
two bands igneous, first band just before the middle, second wider 
and near the apex. Body beneath cupreous, finely pubescent. 
In the male the thorax is not more than half as broad again as 
long. 
Length 8-9 mm. 
Hab. Ceylon. 
653. Dermorhytis atkinsoni, sp. n. 
$ . Metallic green ; labrum, antennae, apices of tibiae and the 
tarsi fulvous ; elytra with three purplish-violaceous blue bands. 
Head remotely and finely punctured, with a central fovea on the 
vertex ; clypeus distinctly separated at the sides, anterior border 
angularly emarginate ; palpi fulvous : antennae not extending to the 
middle of the elytra, third and fourth joints equal, seventh to ninth 
joints very elongate, the terminal two wanting in the type and only 
specimen. Thorax about half as broad again as long, sides with a 
strong tooth at and a smaller tooth below the middle ; anterior 
portion strongly obliquely narrowed in front, anterior angles very 
prominent ; surface strongly convex, remotely and finely punctured 
on the disc, more strongly so at the sides. Scutellum with deep 
fovea. Elytra wider at the base than the thorax, broadly oblong, 
finely punctured in two or three double rows near the suture, rest 
deeply punctured and strongly transversely rugose ; a purplish 
short band near the scutellum that does not extend to the base 
nor to the margins, a straight broader band at the middle and 
a transverse spot near the apex, the latter finely punctured with- 
out rugosities. Beneath metallic green, finely punctured and 
pubescent. 
Length 6| mm. 
Hab. India : Kulaur (. Atkinson Coll., Brit. Mus.). 
Can be distinguished by the colour of the antennm, legs and 
tarsi and by the purple elytral bands. 
