462 Mr. M. Jacoby on 



A rather variable and aberrant species on account of 

 the angulate sides of the thorax, which give it somewhat 

 the appearance of a small Nodostoma ; I am, however, 

 unable to separate the species generically, as it agrees 

 in all other respects with Lam/prosplirerus. In Chalcophyma 

 the thorax is likewise more or less strongly angulate, but the 

 posterior legs are dentate and the elytra are generally 

 costate or tuberculate. The coloration of this insect very 

 nearly agrees with that of L. hcbc, Baly, but the shape of 

 the thorax is quite different. 



Lamprosplicvrus tcrminatus, sp. n. 



Broadly ovate, piceous below, the head, legs and abdomen obscure 

 fulvous, antennte fulvous, the seventh, tenth, and eleventh joints 

 black, thorax obscure piceous, minutely punctured, elytra finely 

 punctate-striate, obscure greenish-piceous, the apex fulvous. 



Length 3i-4 millim. 



Fern. Head finely punctured, fulvous, the middle with a Ijluckish 

 spot, clypeus separated from the face by fine grooves, broad, finely 

 punctured, labrum and palpi fulvous, antennce slender, fulvous, the 

 seventh and the apical two joints black, thorax more than twice as 

 broad as long, the sides strongly rounded, very narrowly margined, 

 not much narrowed in front, the surface very shining, piceous, 

 extremely finely and rather sparingly punctured ; scutellum obscure 

 fulvous ; elytra very convex, feebly transversely depressed below the 

 base, closely and rather irregularly punctate-striate, piceous, with a 

 metallic greenish gloss, the apex with a transverse pale fulvous 

 band extending a little way upwards along the sides ; below piceous, 

 the abdomen (more or less) and the legs partly or entirely fulvous. 



Hah. Amazons. 



This is a rather peculiarly coloured species, and not a 

 very typical representative of the genus, inasmuch as the 

 thorax has the anterior margin not at all concave, but 

 rather produced at the middle ; its general shape is, how- 

 ever, very strongly transverse and quite distinct from tliat 

 of the genus Aghalus, in whicli I should otherwise have 

 placed the species. 



