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CHRYS0MEL1DJE. 
779. Colasposoma metallicum, Clark , A. M. N. H. (3) xv, 1865, 
p. 142. 
Colasposoma capitatum, Jac. Ann . Mm. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 1889, 
p. 178. 
Bronze, metallic blue or green. 
6 . Head closely and strongly punctured, strigose above the 
eyes between which there is a small tubercle: clyp’eus transverse, 
closely punctured ; labrurn, mandibles and base of palpi nearly 
black ; antennae piceous, basal joints bluish, apex of each fulvous, 
second to fourth joints gradually elongate, terminal live widened. 
Thorax twice as broad as long, sides rounded, angles dentiform but 
not produced, disc convex, closely and finely punctured at the 
sides, more remotely so in the middle. Scutellum broad, sparingly 
punctured. Elytra wider at base than the thorax, with a very 
feeble depression below the shoulders, not more strongly punc- 
tured than the thorax ; punctures arranged in irregular rows near 
the suture, distinct to apex ; sides below shoulders more strongly 
punctured within the depression and with slightly rugose inter- 
stices. Body beneath and legs aeneous, finely pubescent. Pro- 
sternum broad, subquadrate. Anterior tibiae widened at the apex, 
slightly curved ; first joint of tarsi dilated. Generative organ 
moderately curved, rather suddenly contracted near the apex, the 
latter terminating broadly and rounded not pointed. 
5 . Elytral interstices at the sides strongly transversely rugose 
and partially tuberculate, a single longitudinal costa near the 
lateral margins, the rugosities not extending to the apex. 
Length 6-7 mm. 
Bab. India : Southern Bombay ; Burma : Bhamo ; Andaman 
Islands ; Penang. 
A very variable species and difficult to define accurately. 
Clark’s type was described from Penang with the underside and 
legs as black, which is not the case, as the type in the British 
M useum proves. These parts are bronze-coloured like the upper- 
side. All the specimens from the other localities given above are 
so closely allied in sculpture that it is impossible to separate them. 
The male was unknown to Clark. 
G. capitatum. Jac., on re-examination, does not seem to differ 
sufficiently to justify its separation. 
780. Colasposoma subopacum, sp. n. 
Dark aeneous or blue, moderately metallic; labrurn, antennae 
and tarsi black. 
g . Oblong. Head deeply rugosely punctured, strongly strigose 
above the eyes ; a distinct tubercle at base of clypeus, the latter 
extrcmelv closely rugose-punctate, angulate-emarginate in front, 
sides obliquely truncate; antennae with the basal four joints 
