six new species of Elateridfe. 37 



Bright orange, cldthed with short golden puhescence, slightly 

 shining ; antenna?, two oblong discoidal patches on the prothorax, 

 scutellum, apical half of the eljtra, underside and legs black. 

 Head thickly and coarsely punctate, with a broad shallow frontal 

 impression and sparse short golden hairs. Prothorax conspicu- 

 ously longer than broad, convex, slightly dilated anteriorly, lateral 

 margin rounded, coarsely punctate and pubescent at the sides, 

 the punctures finer and sparser towards the disc ; a smf)oth 

 central longitudinal line terminating at the posterior margin in a 

 glabrous tubercle; posterior angles long aiid slightly divergent. 

 Scutellum oblong, rather thickly and coarsely punctate. Elytra 

 twice as long as the prothorax, slightly dilated at the sides 

 towards the middle, thence gradually narrowed to the apex, 

 where they are conjointly rounded ; finely striate, the striae 

 finely imnctate ; interstices flat, very finely and closely punctate 

 and Avith a sparse short pubescence of a golden hue on the 

 yellow portion, black on the black portion. Reneath black, 

 thickly punctate, with short scattered golden hairs ; sides of 

 ])rothorax and parapleura; fulvous, the former -with an oblong 

 black dash ; legs black. 



Chigulnda. One example. 



Dlfi^ers from /. Gerstaeckeri, Cand., in the form and colouration 

 of tlie prothorax, the finer punctuation of the elytral strlti; and 

 their plane interstices. 



NOTE. 



EudaclijlHS (liscoidulis, Candeze, Bull, Soc. Ent. iielg. xxi, 

 Ix (Elat nouv. fasc. 2, 14, 1S78}, is certainly an inhabitant of 

 south-eastern Africa, and not of equatorial America as he erro- 

 neously assumes. I have possessed a specimen of this species 

 upwards of twenty years, taken by the late Mr. Guenzius in 

 Natal, and am utterly at a loss to comprehend how M. Candeze 

 can have overlooked the fact that on his last visit to me I called 

 his special attention to this specimen as affording an interesting 

 exception in the geographical distribution of the genus, all the 

 previously known species being inhabitants of Central and South 

 America, and the West Indian Islands. 



