484 SOMK NEW SPECIKS OF COLKOPTERA, 



wider than jjrothorax at base, very slightly sinuate at the 

 middle, then widening and again gradually tapering to the 

 moderately wide apex, this narrower part finely serrated at 

 the sides, with a strong exterior spine ait the apex of each 

 elytron, and a much shorter (scarcely evident) interior (or 

 sutural) spine ; disc with basal border raised and subcarinate, 

 portion immediately behind this depressed ; strongly punc- 

 tate-striate, the punctures in the stride large and close, inter- 

 vals convex, the suture, second and fourth intervals more 

 raised and nitid than the rest (the second interval forming a 

 narrow costa extending from the end of the green portion at 

 base and continuous with the exterior spines at apex). Ster- 

 num coarsely, abdomen less coarsely, but strongly and closely 

 punctate, and with the tarsi clothed with short sparse whitish 

 hairs. Diinensions : 8-8-5 x 2-5 mm. 



Hah.— Dovrigo (Mr. R. J. Tillyard). 



Two specimens, the sexes, taken by Mr. Tillyard in Novem- 

 ber, 1911, are readily distinguished from their allies as fol- 

 lows : N. pulchra V. d. Poll, by the absence of three spots 

 on head, lateral vitta on thorax, and the colour of the elytra; 

 from N. viridis Macl., by the two spots on each elytron {N . 

 virulis having only one) besides other colour-differences, while 

 N. munda Oil. has its head and ])rothorax copper, underside 

 'bright coppery," and the posterior angles of prothorax 

 "acute and projecting," tnfer alia. In the male specimen, 

 the metallic colours of the elytra are more brilliant than in 

 the female, the green at the base being followed by a vague 

 sejnicircle of a fiery or red copper, extending from shoulder 

 to shoulder, this colour showing also at the sides and apex. 

 In the female specimen the colours are duller, but still show 

 a reddish tinge at the shoulders and apex. Types in the 

 author's coll. 



St if] mod era cauddta Cart.=.S'. Uacheri Cart. — The former 

 of these names is preoccupied by a species described by Ker- 

 remans(Anii. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1900, p..316). I, therefore, propose 

 the name Hackeri for the same. 



