704 NINE NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA—LINELL. 



tiite, with irregular, smooth median lino. Thorax broadest at base, 

 very strongly narrowed toward apex; sides colored exactly as the disk,' 

 broadly rounded before middle, distinctly sinuate before the hiiKl 

 ano-les. wliidi are rectangular, witli obtuse apex; base broadly rounded, 

 with very slight indication of emargination on each side and in front of 

 scutellnm; disk sparsely but rather deeply punctate over the whole 

 surface, with eight imju-essed niveous spots — the two largest are mar- 

 ginal, one at the middle and one in front, connected at the margin; the 

 basal and discal i)air in the normal position, as in 0. marf/hialis; one of 

 the specimens has still another pair of spots, though very snmll,on the 

 disk near the apex, as in some specimens of O. iiKtn/iiuili.s. Scutellum 

 smooth, large, sharjdy acuminate. Elytra outlined as in marginaUs, 

 but the striic are less impressed, all coarsely punctate: intervals nearly 

 smooth, varying in width, but none of them depressed, obsoletely str[- 

 gose at apex; the niveous spots are six or seven each side— an elongate 

 spot near apex of scutellum, a small round one behind the humeral 

 calhis. a large transverse spot just behind the middle of margin; in 

 one specimen a small oblique one on the disk inside; two spots just 

 before apical callus, the one marginal, the other one near suture, the 

 apical spot touching the margin behind. Pygidium semicircular, with 

 annular punctures, transversely strigose at base, and on each side a 

 large niveous spot. Ventral surfa(;e punctate, with a large transverse 

 niveous patch covering the sides of metasternum and its episteruum. 

 Abdomen with small round spots at the sides; tifth segment with 

 out any trace of spines. Proportion of the legs and anterior tibia' as 

 in marginalis. Anterior- femora with longer, grayish- white ciliatiou. 

 Length, 11 mm.; width, 6.5 mm. Two examples. 

 Type.—^o. 582, U.S.Is'.M. 



This species has the form of 0. marginaUs, Swarz, from South Africa, 

 but is larger, stouter, and very different in the arrangement of the 

 niveous patches. 



5. CRATOPUS ABBOTTI, new species. 



I'^longate, broader l)ehind, convex, black, shining, sparsely covered 

 with small rounded metallic green scales above; antenna' and legs 

 rufous. Antenna' slender, sparsely pubescent; scape very long, reach- 

 ing the margin of thorax, slightly clavate and curvate; first joint of 

 fmiicle a little longer than the secoiul, both elongate: third to seventh 

 short, equal in length, slightly increasing in width; club fusiform, 

 densely tomentose, as long as the last four joints of the funicle together,' 

 distinctly annulate, the three joints equally long. Ptostrum shorter 

 than the head, cylindrical, convex above, sparsely puiu;tate, each punc- 

 ture with a scale. Eyes large, longitudinally oval, feebly prominent. 

 Head slightly constricted behind the eyes, sj)arsely i)unctate and scaly, 

 scales denser and forming a longitudinal vitta beneath the eyes. Thorax 

 slightly transverse, truncate before and behind, strongly iiarrowoil and 

 constricted at apex, feebly rounded on the sides behind, coarsely, reticu- 



