390 
CHRYSOHELIDtE. 
hairs and shorter white pubescence. Elytra oblong, a shallow 
depression below base, puncturation much finer than that on the 
thorax, especially behind'the middle but similarly pubescent. 
Length 5 mm. 
Hah. Bengal : Mandar. 
Smaller than T. vestita , Baly, the head and thorax more remotely 
and finely punctured, but otherwise similar; perhaps only a local 
form of T. vestita. 
692. Trichochrysea hirta, Fabr. (Eumolpus) Sj/st. Eleuth. i, 1801, 
p. 420 ; Baly (Bromius), Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) iv, 1867, p. 96. 
“ Metallic blue or green, densely pubescent ; head coarsely 
punctured, basal four or five joints of antennae rufo-piceous 
Fig. 135 . — Trichochrysea hirta. 
beneath, second and third sometimes entirely so, basal joint 
eupreo-aureous. Thorax subcylindrical, sides slightly rounded, 
scarcely convergent in front, anterior angles armed with a short 
tooth. Elytra much broader than the thorax, sides parallel, apex 
broadly rounded, surface very coarsely and closely punctured. 
“ Length 6-11 mm. 
“ Hah. Sylhet ; Malayan Islands.” (Baly.) 
It is somewhat doubtful whether Baly had the true T. hirta of 
Eabricius before him, and whether the Indian species is identical 
with that from Java and Sumatra. In the specimens before me 
there is considerable variation in the amount of the pubescence, 
which is short and silky, nearly white in some, and much longer 
and more rigid in others. 
693. Trichochrysea quadrifasciata, Jac. (Heteraspis) Ann. Mus. Civ. 
Genova, xxvii, 1889, p. 171. 
Obscure piceous beneath, metallic green above ; antennae black, 
basal joints fulvous ; elytra with a narrow subsutural and a 
sublateral cupreous band. 
