CHltYSOCHUS. 
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where the puncturation is very fine and less regularly arranged ; 
interstices at sides below the shoulders and within the depression 
transversely wrinkled, more or less aciculate over the rest of the 
surface. Body beneath and legs metallic green, abdomen bluish. 
Prosternum broad, strongly punctured. Claws bifid. 
Length 9.] mm. 
Hab. (Southern India : Nilgiris {G. llampson). Type in Brit. 
Mus. 
884. Chrysochus siamensis, Jac. Stett. ent. Zeit. v, 50, 1895, p. 07. 
Metallic green ; base of the head purplish ; thorax with a round 
purplish spot on disc ; elytra, the suture posteriorly, the lateral 
margins and a broad transverse band before the middle, purplish. 
Head rather strongly and closely punctured, with a deep central 
depression, the upper half purplish, the lower metallic green ; 
clypeus sparingly punctured ; labrurn fulvous ; antennae black, 
basal joint purplish, the following three fulvous, terminal joints 
slightly thickened. Thorax transversely subquadrate, scarcely 
twice as broad as long, lateral margins feebly rounded anteriorly ; 
the disc convex with a subquadrate, elongate purplish patch, not 
extending to the anterior but extending to the posterior margin 
where it is greatly narrowed, the surface punctured like the head. 
Scutellum purplish. Elytra metallic green with a slight cupreous 
tint, the suture posteriorly, the lateral margins more broadly and 
a transverse band before the middle, purplish ; this band greatly 
widened below the shoulders and extended in a short branch 
upwards in front of them and to a less extent near the suture ; the 
puncturation rather fine, slightly stronger on the purplish portion, 
arranged in closely approximate rows. Underside and legs metallic 
green, the femora more or less and the abdomen purplish-blue. 
Claws bifid. 
Length 7—9 mm. 
Hab. Burma {Coll. Brit. Mus.); Siam {Coll. Jacoby ). 
The sutural purplish band is slightly widened posteriorly in 
some specimens. 
885. Chrysochus pulcher, Baly, Ltesc. new yen. Sf spec. Phytoph. 1864, 
p. 1 ; id. Trans. Ent. >boc. (3) iv, 1867, p. 134, pi. 5, f. 4. 
Purplish -blue ; subbasal joints of antennae fulvous; thorax 
golden-cupreous. 
Subquadrate-ovate, broad. Head rather finely and remotely 
punctured, with deep longitudinal central excavation ; labrurn 
black ; antenna3 extending beyond the base of the thorax, the 
basal joint blue or green, its apex together with the second and 
following two joints fulvous, the remaining joints black, slightly 
compressed. Thorax transverse, sides moderately rounded, nearly 
straight at the base, above subcylindrical, punctured like the head 
but the puncturing rather more closely placed. Elytra wider at 
