524 mai; l IN JACOB! 



4. Colasposoma Bottegi, sp. n. —Obscure aeneous, finely pu- 

 bescent , thorax subquadrate , strongly and closely punctured , 

 elytra rugosely punctured and transversely wrinkled throughout, 

 the interstices like those of the thorax, furnished with very 

 short silvery pubescence. 



Length 7 millim. 



Of a dull brownish-aeneous colour, the head very closely 

 rugosely punctured, the vertex longitudinally strigose, the epi- 

 steme not separated from the face , its anterior margin nearly 

 straight, antennae black, rather short, extending a little beyond 

 the base of the elytra, the terminal joints slightly widened, 

 distinctly longer than broad ; thorax twice as broad as long , 

 subquadrate, the sides straight at the base, rounded towards the 

 apex, the anterior angles not produced, tuberculiform, the sur- 

 face convex, closely and strongly punctured, each puncture fur- 

 nished with a very short silvery hair, scutellum closely punctured, 

 its apex rounded ; elytra subcylindrical, not depressed below the 

 base, punctured like the thorax, the interstices everywhere trans- 

 versely wrinkled, pubescent like the thorax ; below and the legs 

 coloured like the upper surface, the tarsi bluish; prosternimi 

 densely pubescent. 



Hub. Da Dime al Bass Narok ; August 1896. Two specimens. 



Amongst the pubescent species of Colasposoma the present 

 one differs in the strong punctuation of the thorax and elytra 

 and in the character of the pubescence which is extremely short 

 and silvery. C. melancholicum, Jac. is closely allied but may be 

 distinguished by the elytral costae. 



5. Syagrus Bottegi, sp. n. — Black, opaque, the lower three 

 joints of the antennae fulvous, head and thorax finely coriaceous, 

 elytra finely punctate-striate , the interstices finely coriaceous 

 and extremely minutely pubescent, femora strongly dentate. 



Length 8 millim. 



Of an entirely black, opaque coloration, the head minutely 

 coriaceous, the clypeus not separated from the fece, finely rugose- 

 punctate, labrum piceous and shining, antennae not extending 

 to ili" middle of the elj tra, black, the lower three joints fulvous, 



