BV ARTHUR M. LEA. 625 



testaceous, posterior femora (except apex) black; base and apex of 

 anteniiie reddish, the intermediate joints reddish-brown; elytra 

 reddish-brown, the shoulders red, the apex reddish-testaceous, 

 behind it a wavy reddish-brown fascia, and behind that a wavy 

 fascia the colour of the apex (perhaps better described as apical 

 third reddish-testaceous, an irregular fascia in the middle); about 

 the middle of the elytra an irregular obscure fascia of pale hairs. 

 Upper and lower surfaces and legs clothed with a very short 

 pubescence. Above densely and minutely punctate, punctures 

 most visible on the head, and only visible on the apical portion of 

 the elytra when pubescence has Vjeen scraped away, beneath very 

 minutely punctate. 



Head twice as broad as long, the eyes very large, jirominent 

 and coarsely faceted, the width across them nearly equal to the 

 l:)ase of the elytra, much wider than the apex of the prothorax 

 (above they occupy about | and beneath more than f of the 

 surface). Antennse thick, reaching the middle of the elytra, lst-3rd 

 joints naiTower than 4th-llth, these of equal width except 11th, 

 which at its middle is slightly the widest, but pointed at apex; 

 1st, 4th and 11th joints about equal in length, 2nd short, 3rd very 

 short, appearing as a minute tubei'cle at the base of 4th, 5th-10th 

 obconic, equal, none of the joints transverse. Prothorax slightly 

 longer than wide, narrowest and rounded in front, very slightly 

 trisinuate at base; a shallow transverse depression towards the 

 base appearing in the middle like shallow fovea? (but not visible in 

 all lights). Elytra with the derm shining, not one and a half 

 times as long as head and prothorax combined, shoulders pro- 

 minent, a shallow oblique impression behind them; sides slightly 

 rounded, widest at a little beyond the middle, about one and a 

 half times as long as broad. Posterior femora thick, the basal 

 joint of the tarsi more than twice as long as the others combined, 

 the basal joint of the intermediate not as long as the others com- 

 bined, all the tibia? straight. Length 1 1, width ^ mm. 



Hab. — Tamworth. 



This is a very pretty little species; the reddish humeral angles 

 are very prominent and almost as if with a small tubercle. 



