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margins ; it has a deep longitudinal mesial line, scarcely ex- 

 tending to the front or base, and deepest where it joins the 

 curved line in front ; some wrinkles run off transversely from it. 

 Elytra with nine strong smooth shining longitudinal ribs (count- 

 ing the sutural and marginal ones), the spaces between the ribs 

 covered with short longitudinal strigse; black, with a transverse 

 irregular testaceous-yellow spot a little before the middle of each 

 elytron ; the spot varies in size and form ; it has usually a 

 tooth or sometimes two projecting behind, and a larger promi- 

 nence projecting in front. There is also another small spot of 

 the same colour on the shoulder, but this is sometimes absent ; 

 and in such cases the spot in the middle is exceedingly reduced 

 in size, so much so, that I should not be surprised to find indi- 

 viduals with the elytra wholly free from spots ; but I have never 

 seen any such. The extreme apex of the elytra has a narrow 

 edging of testaceous colour, which extends forwards a very little 

 way on the ribs. Looking carelessly, it would appear as if it 

 were the ribs which gave the slightly yellow tinge to the extre- 

 mity of the elytra; but the extreme margin of the apex is itself 

 testaceous. The portion of the upper side of the abdomen pro- 

 jecting beyond the elytra is deeply punctate, black, with a tracing 

 of yellow round the margins of the segments. The under side of 

 the head is testaceous yellow ; of the thorax black, more or less 

 encroached upon by testaceous yellow ; usually there is a testa- 

 ceous line along the middle, and another along each side next the 

 edge, but sometimes almost the whole under side of the thorax 

 is yellow. The mesosternum is yellow ; the rest of the breast 

 is black, with the exception of a portion of the sides. The legs, 

 the trochanters, the joints, and parts from which they spring, 

 are yellow ; the thighs are all slightly tipped with fuscous, more 

 or less dark. The segments of the abdomen are black, with the 

 exception of the middle of the posterior margin of the first seg- 

 ment, which is yellow when exposed. 



Calleida, Dej. 

 1. a ruficollis, Fab., Dej. 5. 185. 



Thorace, pectore, ano, antennarum femorumque basi, tibiisque 

 quatuor posticis rufis ; elytris viridibus ; capite, abdomine, 

 antennis pedibusque nigricantibus. 



Long. 4^ lin., lat. 1^ lin. 



[To be continued.] 

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