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Necrophorus Hecate n. sp. 



Body black, shining, deeply punctured ; elytra with four rufous marks. 



Head minutely punctured, a deep glabrous depression on the centre 

 between the antennas, and a transverse suture back of the antennas ; 

 central line not deeply impressed ; a deeply impressed, obliquely rounded 

 line extending from the base of the antennas towards the centre within 

 one-fourth of the base, forming a heart-shaped disc; suddenly contracted 

 near the base and forming a neck; antennas black, club rufous; mouth 

 furnished with pale fulvous hairs. Thorax neatly punctured, broadest 

 in front of the middle; central line not deeply impressed; lateral and 

 posterior margin rounded and flattened ; scutellum black, neatly punc- 

 tured. Elytra deeply punctured, humeri prominent; two elevated lon- 

 gitudinal lines, commencing at the base of the scutel, separating to the 

 width of one line, becoming obsolete near the tip ; a wide, transverse, 

 uneven, rufous mark in front of the middle, one on the posterior fourth, 

 leaving the tip narrowly margined with black. Beneath black, closely 

 punctured; thorax and tarsi clothed with golden pubescence; abdomi- 

 nal segments furnished with black cilias. Length 7 to 10 lines. 



Agrilus pulchellus n. sp. 

 Head metallic-green, closely punctured, deeply impressed between 

 the eyes; antennas black. Thorax metallic-green, closely punctured ; 

 central line distinct, a deep dilated fovea on the dorsal surface extend- 

 ing from the anterior margin to the centre, also deeply impressed along 

 the lateral margin. Elytra with lateral rufous vitta, covering the 

 greater portion of the surface ; centre of the dorsal surface green ; tip 

 narrowly margined with green, closely punctured. Beneath black, 

 covered with silvery pubescence. Length 5a lines. 



Nyctobates subljevis n. sp. 

 Body black ; head somewhat shining, coarsely punctured, flattened, 

 with the surface uneven between the antennas ; labrum minutely punc- 

 tured; mouth furnished with dark brown hair. Thorax opaque, closely 

 punctured; dorsal surface flattened, widest before the middle, ante- 

 rior angles much rounded; lateral margins irregular. Elytra convex, 

 somewhat shining, strias obsolete ; nine longitudinal rows of punctures, 

 not deeply impressed ; interstices minutely punctured, with occasional 

 rugoseness. Beneath minutely punctured; tarsi beneath brown-serice- 

 ous. Length 10 \ lines. 



Anthophylax? mirificus n. sp. 

 Body black, clothed with short, erect, brownish hairs; head grossly 

 punctured, somewhat shining, central line deeply impressed between 



