Buprestidce from Madagascar. 185 



punctures. The abdomen is obscurely punctured, except 

 the apical segment, wliicli is strongly punctured. The 

 refiexed margin of the elytra is dull blue-black. The 

 tarsi above are green. 

 Length 20 lines. 



Hah. — Madagascar. 



Erchodes fid(/idivcntris, n. sp. 



Above coppery brown, the front of the head coppery, 

 some portions of the interstices of the eltyra blackish. 

 Thorax with the surface uneven, distinctly impressed on 

 each side, the impressions and the sides very rugose. 

 Elytra rather smooth, the striEe very imperfect, and not 

 very much impressed ; all the surface below the 

 shoulders, a considerable portion of the sides, as well as 

 some oblique, irregular rows of sub-confluent spots, 

 frosted coppery brown, all these spaces filled with soft 

 grey pubescence. All the under surface of the insect 

 bright, shining, purple-tinted coppery, with a little golden 

 green at the margins of the segments ; the legs and the 

 refiexed margins of the elytra golden green. Prosternal 

 process almost impunctate. 



Length 23 lines. 



Hah. — Fianarantsoa (Shaw). 



This species differs from E. Jansonu, Th., in having 

 the elytra much less strongly striated, in its different 

 colour, &c. From E. Deyrollei, Th., it differs in having 

 the thorax impressed on each side, and in being more 

 elongate. 



CoccineUopsis ' ! crihraria, n. sp. 



Depressed, elliptical, bronzy, the elevated parts 

 aeneous. Thorax transverse, moderately narrowed ante- 

 riorly, the sides nearly rectilinear ; the medial channel 

 is coppery ; on each side of this the disk is smooth and 

 shining seneous, and sparingly punctured ; the sides are 

 very uneven and rugose. The elytra immediately below 

 the shoulders are rather more than one-third broader 

 than the thorax, subparahel for tw^o-thu'ds their length, 

 then arcuately attenuated ; almost the whole surface 

 frosted and punctured; there are three or four inter- 

 rupted narrow seneous costse on the back ; numerous 

 small, round impressions are noticeable, particularly on 

 the 2nd and 4th costse ; these spots are finely pilose ; at 



