at each side, frontal tui)ercles short and broad, eyes large, pro- 

 duced, antennae slender, black, extendiiig to al;out the middle of 

 the elytra, the third joint very elongate, thorax one half broader 

 than long, the angles acute, the sides with a strong tooth at 

 the middle, the disc bifoveolate at the sides, dee})ly longitudi- 

 nally sulcate at the middle, the sulcus widened into a fovea at 

 each end, piceous, very shining, impunctate, elytra much wider 

 at the base than the thorax, rather broadly margined, transver- 

 sely depressed below the base, finely and rather closely pun- 

 ctured anteriorly, the punctures somewhat obsolete towards the 

 apex, purphsh, the sides metallic greenish, with an acute costa 

 from the shoulders nearly to the apex and preceded by a lon- 

 gitudinal sulcus, this latter is bounded anteriorly by another 

 shorter sinuate ridge, under side and the femora piceous, tibiae 

 and tarsi black. 



Andai, New Guinea. 



Of this large sized species I possess a single female specimen ; 

 it must not be confounded with Sastra toslatipenis Jac. which 

 is of half the size only, has the thorax angulate only at the 

 sides and the elytra differently coloured and sculptured; Sastra 

 hicostata Jac. also differs in the much smaller size and angulate 

 not toothed thorax. 



39. Sastra qtixadripiijstixlala, sp. n. 



Testaceous, base of the head and the abdomen black, thorax 

 deeply bifoveolate, shining, elytra closely and strongly punctu- 

 red, metallic green, a transverse spot at the middle and another 

 at the apex, flavous, surface with very short pubescence. 



Length 9-12 millim. 



Head with a few minute punctures, the vertex blackish, witli 

 a central groove, the sides testaceous, frontal tubercles strongly 

 raised, narrow, antennae extending beyond the middle of the 

 elytra, the lower five joints testaceous, the others blackish, the 

 apical joint testaceous again, third joint elongate and the lon- 

 gest, thorax twice as broad as long, the sides strongly angulate 



