50:2 M. JACOBY 



at the middle, the disc with a deep depression at each side, the 

 middle with a narrow longitudinal groove and another depres- 

 sion at the base, surface with a few fine punctures, testaceous, 

 very shining, scutellum broad, rather convex, Havous or testa- 

 ceous, el^^tra with a longitudinal sulcus at the sides, very clo- 

 sely and distinctly punctured and sparingly clothed with very 

 short grey pubescence, metallic green, a transverse subquadrate 

 spot at the middle, constricted at the sides and another rounded 

 spot near the apex, ilavous, under side and legs testaceous, the 

 femora more or less stained with black and the abdomen (in 

 one specimen) entirely of this colour, in the other three, testa- 

 ceous. 



Trobriand Isl. New Guinea (my collection). 



40. Sa-stra i-ug-icollis, sp. n. 



Fulvous, the antennae (the basal joints excepted) and the 

 breast black, head and thorax rugosely punctate, elytra pur- 

 plish-black, with several shallow depressions, the sides deeply 

 longitudinally costate, the disc finely pubescent. 



Length 10 millim. 



Head closely and strongly rugose, fulvous, eyes large, clypeus 

 narrow and ridge shaped, frontal elevations oblique, distinct, 

 antennae extending beyond the middle of the elytra, black, the 

 lower two or three joints flavous, third joint twice as long as 

 the fourth, apex of the terminal joint fulvous, thorax scarcely 

 twice as broad as long, the sides constricted at the base, augn- 

 iate before the middle, the disc deeply transversely sulcate at 

 the sides and bifoveolate at the middle, fulvous, strongly rugose, 

 scutellum black, finely punctured, elytra with narrowly relie- 

 xed lateral margins, finely and closely punctured and thinly 

 clothed with very short pubescence, nearl}' black, with purplish 

 gloss, the surface obsoletely depressed before and below the 

 middle, the sides with a short and a longer and deeper longi- 

 tudinal sulcus bounded by lateral ridges, the outer ones of 

 which are more acutely raised, elytral epijileurae broad, exten- 



