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Show 446 MR. M. JACOBY ON N E W [Mar. 15, species, as the habitat of the type alone is known to me, the other three being without locality. 15. COLASPOSOMA ROBUSTUM, sp. nov. Suhquadrate-oblong, robust. Metallic green or blue; above metallic green, rather finely punctured, suture and a transverse short band below the base of the elytra purplish. Var. Above entirely metallic green. Length 4-5 lines. Hab. India, Neilgherries. Head rather finely and remotely punctured, the front swollen, with a deep impression between the eyes ; upper part of the epistome longitudinally rugose. Labrum and palpi black. Antennse of half the length of the body, the six lower joints dark blue, the rest black, opaque. Thorax transversely convex, its sides rounded ; surface not closely, but distinctly punctured, the punctures not stronger than those of the head. * Scutellum broad, subquadrate. Elytra wider at the base than the thorax, subquadrate, convex, transversely impressed below the basilar space, where the punctuation is deep and strong, and more or less deeply transversely rugose ; rest of the surface punctured like the thorax, but more finely towards the apex. Underside and legs metallic green or blue. Six specimens are contained in m y collection. The large size and rather fine punctuation distinguish the present species from the others, especially from C. pretiosum, Baly, from which it is moreover separated by the uniform colour of the tarsi and legs and the want of the tooth of the anterior femora. Colasposoma sellalum, Baly (1878)= C. barbatum, Harold (1879). Colasposoma instabile, Harold (1877)= C various, Baly (1878). Genus EUBRACHYS, Dej. 16. E U B R A C H Y S APICALIS, sp. nov. Oblong, subdepressed. Metallic green, sides of the thorax and part of the head black; above rugose, posterior part of the elytra striate-punctate, black; legs cupreous, femora acutely dentate. Length 2\ lines. Hab. Cameroons. Head elongate, closely rugose punctate, the vertex strigose, blackish, lower part cupreous, anterior margin of the epistome distinctly concave, apex of jaws black. Antennse gradually widened towards the apex, black, basal joint cupreous. Thorax cylindrical, scarcely wider at the middle, metallic green at the disk, sides black, surface closely punctate and transversely rugose. Scutellum subpentagonal, metallic green. Elytra much wider at the base than the thorax, narrowed towards the apex, anterior portion metallic green, closely covered with distinct granulations, apical portion deeply punctate-striate, black, somewhat shining, extreme apex finely pubescent. Underside closely pubescent, legs elongate, rugose-punctate, cupreous, all the femora with an acute long tooth. Apical margin of the anterior epistome concave. |