Decade of nero Cetonlidce. 207 



ferniginea lineis que tribus plus minusve intcrruptis trans- 

 versis albis ; pedibus elongatis. 



Long. Corp. lin. 6^; lat. liumer. elytr. 2%. 



Habitat in Madagascar. In Mus. Higgins. 



This curious species, which I have referred with much 

 doubt to the genus Gametis, might be easily mistaken, 

 both from its general form and markings, for a species of 

 the Longicorn genus Clytus. It is black and velvety, 

 the head and prothorax finely punctured, the former 

 elongated, with the clypeus emarginate. The pronotum 

 is nearly circular, the anterior angles being only slightly 

 advanced behind the eyes ; it is black, velvety and finely 

 ]Mmctured, having a narrow edging of white extending 

 entirely round, leaving, however, the posterior lateral 

 angles black and slightly raised. The scutellum is black, 

 with the posterior part white, with a very fine raised 

 central line. The elytra are nearly flat, narrow, with the 

 humeral angles prominent and rounded at the base : they 

 are finely punctured, and each is marked with a fine 

 impressed longitudinal line next the suture, not reaching 

 the extremity ; beyond the middle this is accompanied by 

 a second line, and the basal half of each elytron is also 

 marked with two very fine longitudinal impressed lines ; 

 between the shoulders and the middle of each side there 

 is a ferruginous marginal spot, within which is a slender 

 interrupted transverse white fascia, followed by a second 

 much abbreviated one ; a third, angulated in the middle, 

 is placed at a little distance beyond the middle. The 

 legs are long and slender, the anterior tibia) tridentate, 

 the middle and hind pair Avith a small tooth beyond the 

 middle. The body beneath is black, the deflexcd sides of 

 the prothorax and raetasternum and terminal segment of 

 the abdomen ferruginous. The underside of the hind 

 femora and the margins of some of the abdominal seg- 

 ments are Avhite. The maxill;\3 have their two lobes 

 simple and thickly setose, the mentum is elongate-cup- 

 shaped, with the anterior margin rather dee[)ly emarginate. 

 The prosternum is armed with a deflexed spine in front. 

 The metasterninii is small and but slightly jiroduced into 

 a short triangular point. 



The very narrow form and the nearly circular ])ronotimi, 

 not emarginate in front of the scutellum, removes this 

 species from Stenotarsia. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1879. — rAKT II. (.JULY.) 



