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



purple. Elytra convex, smooth and shining ; sides transversely im- 

 pressed below the shoulder; each elytron with eleven regular rows 

 of punctures, the first abbreviated ; the suture, the extreme outer 

 border, a transverse band in front, commencing at the outer 

 extremity of the transverse depression and extending inwards as 

 far as the third stria from the suture, and a short vitta behind the 

 middle, placed on the outer disc, bright metallic-blue. Beneath 

 bright purple, legs and abdomen marked with coppery-gold. 



Ilab. New Guinea. 



Of this beautiful species, which has not been taken by Mr. 

 Wallace during his recent expedition to New Guinea, I know but 

 two specimens, one in the British Museum, the other in my own 

 Collection. 



Family CASSIDID^. 



Genus HoPLioNOTA, Hope. 



Iloplionota Templetoni. 



Sub-rotundata, leniter convexa, subnitido-fulva, elytris utrisque 

 antice bi-, postice laxe subreticulo-caiinatis ; maculis duabus 

 nigris, una basi, alteri pone medium, positis. 



Long. 3 lin. 



Sub-rotundate, slightly convex, fulvous, each elytron with two 

 large spots, one at the base, the other just behind the middle, 

 black ; tarsi fuscous. Head with two longitudinal grooves on the 

 front ; eyes pitchy black ; antennae equal in length to the thorax, 

 their apex obscure fuscous. Thorax more than twice longer than 

 broad, deeply rotundate-emarginate in front, sides dilated, their 

 outer margin rounded ; above convex, smooth and shining, covered 

 here and there with irregular excavations, dilated margin hori- 

 zontal, covered with large deep punctures. Elytra scarcely 

 broader than the thorax, humeral angles slightly produced ante- 

 riorly, their apex obtuse; sides moderately, apex regularly rounded; 

 above sub-convex, sides sub-sinuate below the shoulders ; surface 

 deeply punctate-striate; each elytron with two elevated longitudinal 

 costae : the first, near the suture, sinuate and extending from the 

 base to the apex, just beyond its middle sending off a transverse 

 branch to the outer border; the second, commencing at the shoulder, 

 runs nearly parallel to the first, but terminates at its transverse 

 branch ; tliis latter, soon after its commencement, gives off an 

 irregular branch posteriorly, which causes the hinder portion of 



