204 Prof. J. O. Westwood o?^ a 



on each. The unclersiirface of the body is black and 

 glossj, with fulvous seta3 and a few punctures on the 

 abdominal rings. The mandibles are furnished with a 

 very narrow blade, acute at the tip, with an inner slightly 

 setose lobe and with a Broad robust molar plate. The 

 maxillffi have both lobes simple and thickly setose, and 

 the mentuni is broad, subhexagonal and emarginate in 

 ■ front. The mesosternum is very shortly and but slightly 

 produced into a short broad point in front. 



Pygora ignita. (PI. IV. fig. 1.) 



Oblonga subdepressa IfEvissima nitidissima la3te aureo- 

 virldis, elytrorum apice lateribusque igneis ; prothorace 

 subconico truncato, vittis duabus longitudinalibus impressis 

 chalybjBis ; elytris linea parum curvata subsuturali pro- 

 funde impressa, altera discoidaii, tertiaque punctata pone 

 medium, pedibus castaneis aureo-viridibus. 



Long. Corp. lin. 7 ; lat. burner, elytr. lin. 4. 



Habitat Madagascar. In Mus. liiggins. 



This beautiful insect is remarkable not only for its 

 brilliant colour, but for the highly-polished surface, the 

 head is finely ]iunctured, the antennns fulvous, the clypeus 

 emarginate ; the prothorax is gradually widened from the 

 head to the hind angles, being but very slightly angulated 

 in the middle of its lateral margins. Its hind margin is 

 but slightly emarginate in front of the scutellum, which 

 is golden -green. The sides of the pronotum, next the ante- 

 rior angles, have a series of dark punctures, and towards 

 the hind angle a fine impressed line. On the disc on each 

 side is a deep longitudinal steel-blue impression ; the 

 scutellum has its base covered with minute semicircular 

 transverse lines. 



The elytra are highly polished with a very deep impressed 

 line on each side of the suture, having a series of punctures 

 in the deepest part; these two lines are wider aj^art about 

 the middle of the suture, and succeeded by another nearly 

 straight line of the same kind, betAveen which and the 

 lateral margin is a third much shallower line formed of 

 impressed punctures. The legs are light chestnut, Avith a 

 golden-green gloss. The body beneath is golden-green, 

 Avith black punctures, the abdominal rings being but 

 slightly punctate. The maxillary lobes are simple, the 

 mentum oblong, emarginate in front, and the metasternum 

 is broad, short and obtusely rounded in front. 



