1883.] 139 



maculi 2^arva humerali, singulis cum fasciis transversis suhapicalihus 

 rvfis. Long. 16 — 36 mill. 



Blact, shining; head coarsely and rather unevenly punctured, with a smooth 

 irregular disc between the eyes ; thorax with lateral margins raised, and so con- 

 tinuing round both angles, and then gradually smoothing down in the medial region, 

 punctured like the head at the sides, but on the disc the punctures become almost 

 obsolete ; above red, with the margin and ten spots black, three basal, three frontal, 

 and two lateral confluent with margin, two discoidal and isolated. Elytra finely 

 punctate-striate, interstices very finely wrinkled, humeral angle raised and red, the 

 8ub-apical fascia is small, with an outer and sutural margin of equal breadth, black. 

 The abdomen is sparingly punctured. The <J has a tooth or process on the anterior 

 margin of the fore- tibia. 



The red markings of the elytra are almost identical with those in 

 cruentata, Macleay, while the spots on the thorax are less confluent, 

 and the thoracic margins more sinuate and raised. 



This species is fairly common in all the islands where there are 

 beeches in the forests, and they are to be seen in warm weather 

 crawling on large Bolefi, often twenty feet overhead. Out of forty 

 examples the most measure 27 to 31 mill., extreme sizes being as 

 given above. 



MeGALODACNE BELLU]>A, 11. sp. 



Nigra, nitidissima, eapite tlwraceciue sparse, elytris seriatim, punc- 

 tatis ; interstifiis olsoletissime punctulatis ; transversim hifasciatis, an- 

 nulo humerali integro, interne ramoso. Long. 13 — 16 mill. 



Black, shining; head and thorax with scattered punctures. On the head two 

 punctures are large at the base, and small and even on the forehead. The canthus 

 of the eye is well marked above. Ihe thorax has a large cluster of punctures 

 formed in a fovea at the base, and then extending in a broken way to a second cluster 

 in a depression behind the eye. The lateral margin is elevated and rather thick. 

 Elytra punctate-striate, with a humeral fascia i^steriorly tridentate, and a black 

 spot quite isolated in its centre. The fascia nearly touches the base of the elytra 

 for about two-thirds of its breadth ; on the outer edge the elytral emargination is 

 black. At the suture, it leaves a black margin equal to about the breadth of two 

 etrise and two interstices. The sub-apical fascia has anteriorly two obscure outer 

 denticulations, then three well-marked, and posteriorly three distinct. 



The i is distinguished by dilated tarsi, and two arch-shaped depressions on the 

 last scgmen of the abdomen, with the space between them raised. 



I sent specimens to Herr E. Reitter, who informs me this is not 

 Vx^ jlavosignatus from Siberia. I obtained plenty of examples in the 

 elevated beech- forests of all the islands in May and June. 



