156 Mr. J. S. Baly's Descriptions of 



This genus is at once separated from its allies by the peculiar 

 form of the metasternum, the apex of which articulates with the 

 base of the presternum. 



Genus GoNiocTENA, Redtenb. 

 Gonioctena Jlexuosa. 

 Elongata, sub-depressa, nigra, nitida ; elytris punctato-striatis, 

 flavis, utrisque fascia lata flexuosa, ante medium maculaque 

 ante apicem nigris. 

 Long. 3 lin. 



Elongate, sub-depressed, shining black ; elytra pale yellow, 

 each with a broad flexuous band before the middle and a large 

 sub-apical spot shining black. Head coarsely punctured, exca- 

 vated between the eyes ; face sub-horizontal ; antennae scarcely 

 longer than the head and thorax, basal joints pale fulvous beneath. 

 Thorax more than twice broader tiian long, deeply excavated in 

 front ; sides rounded, narrowed in front, nearly straight near the 

 base, their outer border thickened ; above sub-convex, smooth 

 and shining, sub-remotely punctured, sides slightly excavated, 

 coarsely and more closely punctured. Scutellum broadly semi- 

 ovate, shining black. Elytra scarcely broader than the thorax ; 

 above sub-convex, smooth and shining, each elytron with ten rows 

 of punctures, the first abbreviated, the outer one placed on the 

 extreme outer border; interstices slightly convex; pale yellow, a 

 broad sinuous band placed before the middle, and sending a broad 

 process a short distance down the suture, and a large sub-ovate 

 patch behind, shining black. Beneath shining black, abdominal 

 segments narrowly edged with piceous; four posterior tibiae armed 

 on their outer edge at the apex with a short acute spine. 



Hab. Northern China. Collected by Mr. Fortune. 



British Museum, and my own collection. 



Genus Australica. 

 Sub-genus Augomela, Baly. 

 Angomcla ornata. 

 Ovata, convexa, nitidissima, subtus obscure aenea, supra cupreo- 

 aurea, seneo-micans; tibiis, tarsis, vertice, thoracis basi apice- 

 que et elytrorum utrumque sutura, margine laterali plagaque 

 magna cruciformi, nitido-purpureis. 

 Long. 3| lin. 



Ovate, convex, beneath dark, shining green, above golden*copper, 



