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Baly from Java; the former is however of only half the size 
than the Javan insect, from which it is further distinguished by 
the bright metallic green colour and that of the thorax, the 
sides of which are flavous, the legs being also of the latter colour 
entirely. The insect is of a narrow parallel shape and seems to 
me to possess all the generic characters peculiar to Cynorta. 
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102. Cynorta capitata, n. sp. 
Black; head, thorax and the femora, flavous; elytra metallic 
green, deeply semipunctate-striate ; basal joints of the antennae 
flavous. 
7. Lower part of the face, excavated, furnished with two 
pointed projections; elytra closely punctured, the punctuation 
partly confluent. 
Q. Lower part of the face, slightly concave and flattened , 
simple, elytra deeply punctured at the sides, finely at the disc. 
Length 2 lines. 
7. Head impunctate , ee , the frontal tubercles strongly 
raised, forming a single transverse piece, slightly grooved at 
the middle; the space below the insertion of the antennae 
deeply excavated, the excavation provided with two thin and 
pointed projections; palpi piceous; antennae closely approached , 
the 3 or 4 lower joints fiavous or fulvous, the others fuscous ; 
the first joint slender, curved and thickened at its apex, the 
second very short, the fourth longer than the third; thorax 
broader than long, the sides narrowed at the base, the surface 
with a rather deep transverse depression at the sides, flavous, 
the extreme lateral margin piceous, the disc impunctate, shining; 
scutellum black; elytra narrow, metallic green or bluish, very 
deeply punctured, foveolate-punctate and confluent at the sides, 
the punctuation arranged in rows, the base slightly swollen 
nearly impunctate as well as the apices; femora and the base 
of the tibiae flavous, the apices of the latter and the tarsi, 
piceous or black. 
Hab. Sumatra, pats Tanam (Beccari). Borneo, Sarawak (Doria 
and Beccari). 
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