Dracrvptioiifi of two new ,s2?rc?Vs of Amphizoa discovered in 

 Vancouver s Island hi/ Mr. Joseph Beanelmnvp Mat- 

 thews : by the Rev. A. Matthews, M.A., Oxon. 



I have much pleasure in recording the discovery of two 

 new species of the extraordinary genus Amphizoa. Both 

 were found in Vancouver's Island by my brother, IVIr. 

 J. B. Matthews ; 1 )ut as he did not know their value, nor 

 even the genus to wliicli they belonged, he is unable to 

 give me any particulars of their capture, or of the pi-ecise 

 locality in which they occurred. Both species differ in 

 many essential characters from A. insolens ; A. Le Contei, 

 besides having a strongly elevated carina on each elytron, 

 is marked with longitudinal stripes of red, which in life 

 are probably very conspicuous, and A. Josephi is of a dull 

 black colour without any tinge of Ijrown, much more 

 depressed and narrower in form, and also differs from 

 l)oth its congeners in the relative proportions and sculp- 

 ture of all parts of the body. 



By the urgent desire of Dr. Le Conte, who has carefully 

 examined both species, I take this means of announcing 

 their occurrence and publishing tlieir descriptions. 



Amphizoa Josephi, sp. nov. 



L. c. 5i lin. — Oblongo ovalis, depressa, rugose punctata, 

 obscure nigra, baud nitida, pedilnis atque antennis nigris. 



Head rather short and liroad, finely and very closely 

 ]iunctured, the interstices not shining, with a very wide 



