266 May. 



Form of body as iu C. jjlacida, but witli more slender legs, clearer 

 reddish-testaceous, and elytra not clouded witb dark blue. The chief 

 distinction, however, resides in the sculpture of the thorax and crown 

 of the head, which are smooth in C. placida, and roughened, with 

 rather coarse, irregular rugae in C. deUcata ; the striae of the sides of 

 the head are also much broader and coarser. The white marks on 

 the elytra are slender, and in the same situation as in G. placida ; but 

 the median fascia is not flexuous but straight and oblique, and is 

 joined to a white marginal line. The apical lunule is interrupted ; 

 there being an isolated speck iu the situation of the anterior end, and 

 a narrow, white, apical margin. The humeral angle is reddish. It 

 differs from the allied C. pupiUata iu the broader and more rounded 

 thorax and in colour. 



New Guinea (Wallace). 



ClOINDELA IMMAAIS, S/;. n. 



Ad sectionem C. hiramosa pertinet. Eloru/ata, convexa, cupreo- 

 nigra, oris partihus nigro-ceneis, mandibulis basi igneis ; lalro antice 

 paulo producto ^ et $ imidentato ; tJiomce rofiindafo, j^^'onoti sutura 

 laterali dorsum versus sita ; elytris ohlongis, apice alt use conjunctim 

 rotundatis, stipra Jcevihus, alutaceis, punctis perpaucis versus hasin ; 

 pedihus elongafis, unguilus Jongissimis. Long. 4 — 6 lin. ^ ? . 



A strange looking species, having the heavy build of the African 

 MegacepTialoB ; it is, however, nearly allied to C hiramosa, but more 

 convex and with the lateral suture of the pronotum moved still further 

 towards the disc, leaving exposed the very convex flanks of the pro- 

 thorax. The head is nearly of the same shape, scarcely depressed 

 between the eyes ; it is finely sculptured, and has very few longitu- 

 dinal stria?. The labrum, like the palpi, is black, transverse quadrate 

 in form, with broadly dentate anterior margin. The thorax is very 

 finely sculptured, and hairless. The elytra are obtusely rounded at 

 the apex ; the sutural angle not prominent ; the surface uniformly 

 alutaceous, but with scattered fine punctures near the base, and a 

 row of concolorous larger punctures parallel to the suture. The 

 body is nearly glabrous underneath. 



In the $ the antepenultimate ventral segment is advanced in a 

 large lobe in the middle, nearly covering the penultimate. 



The antennae are short, filiform, the terminal joints being much 

 abbreviated. 



Yemen , many examples. 



