BY II. J. CARTER. 



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Cyphogastra browni, n. sp. (Text-flg. 6.) 



Navicular; upper surface dark greeu, with impressions filled with yellow 

 llueeulence, head bluish; underside metallic green, almost entirely obscured by 

 yellow flocculence; raised medial lobe of abdomen purple, antennae bronze, legs 

 and tarsi metallic green, knees blue. 



Heuil subtriangularly excised on front — the apex of triangle somewhat arched 

 — a large irregular impression filled with yellow flocculence between the eyes, 

 this bordered by crennlate ridge; basal area sparsely rugose-punctate. 



Text-tig. 5. 

 Cyphogastra vulncrata Thery. 



Text-tig. G. 

 Cyphogastra browiii, n.sp. 



Prothorax depressed, bisinuate at apex (strongly) and at base (slightly) ; all 

 angles acute; widest at base, sides nearly straight and gently narrowing till near 

 the front, then sinuately converging to the angles; disc with wide medial sulcus, 

 a wide, irregular, trilobed. flocculent impression occupjang the greater part of 

 sides; the raised parts near centre sparsely punctate — at sides rugose-punctate. 



Scutellum metallic green, rather square and depressed in middle. 



Elytra slightly wider than prothorax at base, angulately widening at shoulders 

 and tapering to the acuminate apex, terminating in two larger sutural spines — 

 with about 6 strong serrations on each side: each elytron with four flocculent 

 impressions, the first circular at basal margin (about midway between suture 

 and shoulder), the second pear-shaped, lai-ger than flrst, at sides before the 

 middle — its narrower part produced forward along margin beneath the humeral 

 callus, the third lanceolate, forming a short vitta near suture on posterior third 

 and extending to apex; the fourth short and longitudinal at sides, postmedial 

 (stai'ting slightly in advance of the third) ; the remaining surface irregularly 



