112 Rev. F. W. Hope on some Coleopterous Insects from Silhet. 



the true Colobothea, which inhabits the New World : the Asiatic species belong 

 to a distinct genuSj and ought to be separated. 



Sagrid^^ Leach. 



Sp. 16, Sagra carbunculus. Tab. X. fig. 9. 



Cyanea, elytris igne auroque micantibus, pedibus posticis incrassatis ; tibiis 

 incurvis. 



Long. 1. y. 4^. 



Caput, a-Jennce, thorax, corpus totum infra pedesque cyanei. Thorax fere quadratus, antice 

 ante oculos contractus, punctulatus. Elytra carbunculosa, igne auroque micantia, cre- 

 berrime punctulata. Pedes femoribus 4 anterioribus parum incrassatis, tibiis subincur- 

 vis ; posticis valde incrassatis subunidentatis, tibiis arcuatis, tarsis flavo-spongiosis. 



The CkrysidcB, or gold wasps of the Hymenoptera, have not unaptly been 

 compared to the humming-birds of ornithologists ; and the magnificent ori- 

 ental beetles of the genus Sagra may justly be contrasted with the precious 

 stones of the East, with the ruby, the sapphire and the emerald. As the 

 above insect resembles a carbuncle, it is named accordingly. 



EXPLANATION OF TAB. X. 



Fig. 1. Diphyllomorpha Mearsii. 



2. Hexarthrius Parryi. 



3. Odontolabis Cuvera. 



4. Chrysochroa Edvardsii. 



5. Monohammus sulphurifer. 



6. Purpuricenus rubripennis. 



7. Zonopterus flavitarsis. 



8. Colobothea rubricollis. 



9. Sagra Carbunculus. 



