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XXIV. Descriptions of new Coleoptera from East 

 Africa and Madagascar. By CilAS. O. 

 Wateehouse. 



[Read November 5th, 1879.] 



I HAVE to submit to the Society this evening descriptions 

 of some beautiful Coleoptera from East Africa and 

 Madagascar. One is a species of Sternocera, the second 

 is a remarkable new genus of Longicorns from Mada- 

 gascar. 



The following are the descriptions : — 



BUPRESTIDiE. 

 Sternocera pulchra. 



Thorace cupreo, albo-fasciculato ; elytris viridi-seneis, 

 vitta obliqua purpurea, sub humero macula fulvo-tomen- 

 tosa. 



Long. 22 lin. 



A most beautiful species, perhaps most nearly allied to 

 S.funehris, Bohem. Thorax bright coppery, very deeply 

 and closely foveate, each fovea with a short tuft of yellow- 

 ish-white soft hair; the extreme lateral and basal margins 

 blue. Elytra bright green, strongly and thickly punctured, 

 the punctures irregular in form and not arranged in 

 regular lines, filled with extremely fine pale pubescence ; 

 beneath each shoulder there is an elongate orange tomen- 

 tose spot ; on each elytron there are the following purple 

 markings or shades, viz., a spot in the middle of the base, 

 a stripe placed a little behind the orange spot, on the 

 margin directed oblicpiely upwards, and a rather broad 

 streak commencing on the margin a little behind the 

 middle of the elytra, directed for a short distance obliquely 

 upwards and then suddenly bent downwards, obliquely, 

 towards the suture. These purple marks are only visible 

 in certain lights. The underside of the insect is coloiu'cd 

 with purple, golden-green and blue-green, and has some 

 patches of fine ]jale pubescence. 



Hah. — ]\Iountains of Usangara. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1879. PART IV. (DEC.) 



