BY THOMAS G. SLOANE. 403 



Hah. — N.S. W. : Berovvra( Messrs. Carter and Ferguson). Colls. 

 Carter, Ferguson and Sloane. 



A very distinct species, the handsomest of the genus. It 

 requires comparison only with X. grandis Chaud., from which 

 some conspicuous differences are — head convex, not strongly 

 constricted behind eyes; bivittate prothorax; less punctate 

 elytral interstices, etc. 



Xanthophcea nigricincta, n.sp. 



Elongate, convex; he^d — with eyes — wider tlian prothorax, 

 obliquely narrowed behind eyes; prothorax cordate, convex, 

 narrowly margined; elytra convex, punctate-striate; interstices 

 depressed, third unipunctate about posterior fifth. Ferruginous 

 (elytra a little paler than prothorax and head); prothorax nar- 

 rowly margined with black on sides; each elytron margined with 

 black (except base of interstices 2-6), this black margin narrow 

 along suture (occupying first interstice), apex and apical part of 

 sides, wider from shoulders backward to apical fourth (occupying 

 three external interstices). 



Head 1-25 mm. across eyes, nitid, impunctate, convex, rather 

 strongly obliquely narrowed behind eyes, transversely impressed 

 behind orbits; front lightly impressed on each side behind clypeus; 

 eyes convex, prominent; postocular part of orbits rising obliquely 

 from neck. Prothorax hardly longer than broad(l*1.5 x 1-2 mm.), 

 widest before middle, convex; disc nitid, impunctate; apex 

 truncate; anterior angles near head, lightly indicated; sides 

 rounded on anterior three-fourths, sinuate posteriorly; base trun- 

 cate, basal angles marked, obtuse at summit; anterior marginal 

 puncture on border at widest part; marginal channel wide (but 

 not explanate), deep and foveiform at basal angles; border narrow, 

 reflexed; median line deeply impressed. Elytra greatly wider 

 than prothorax (4 X 2 mm.), convex, parallel; humeral angles 

 rounded; interstices nitid, a row of minute punctures perceptible 

 along middle of every one under a strong lens; first and second 

 striae not reaching basal puncture (this distinct, isolated); striole 



