some new Species of Sagra, Sfc. 241 



pnominent ; sides sinuate ; above deeply but not coarsely punc- 

 tured, punctures irregularly crowded, more scattered and distant 

 on the disc ; on the centre of the latter is an indistinct longitudinal 

 ridge, and at its extreme base a distinct fovea. Elytra obovate, 

 their base truncate ; basilar space considerably elevated, bounded 

 below by a deep transverse depression ; shoulders moderately 

 prominent, impressed on their inner margin with a deep oblique 

 fovea ; surface distinctly punctate-striate, the puncturing, which 

 is visible to the extreme apex of the elytra, confused and irregular 

 towards the sides ; interspaces finely aciculate-reticulate, the re- 

 ticulations on the outer side of the shoulder vermiculate. Body 

 beneath distinctly punctured. 



Male. — Posterior pair of thighs extending considerably beyond 

 the apex of the elytra, elongate- incrassate, their upper edge pro- 

 duced in front into a broad but slightly elevated ridge, which 

 becomes lost on the apical third of the thigh, the latter portion 

 slightly depressed and obliquely rounded, its extreme apex being 

 deeply notched; lower edge compressed into an obsoletely toothed 

 ridge, and armed immediately before the apex with two short 

 stout teeth, the anterior somewhat larger; inner surface longi- 

 tudinally carinate, its lower half sparingly clothed at the base 

 with a few scattered fidvous hairs ; tibiae of the same pair strongly 

 flexuose, their apex strongly mucronate, outer edg^ armed with a 

 stout elongate curved spine. Basal segment of abdomen longi- 

 tudinally excavated, coarsely punctured, and, together with all 

 the other segments, covered with coarse yellow hairs. 



Female. — Posterior pair of thighs furnished before their apex 

 beneath with a short denticulate ridge ; tibiae simple. 



Var. A. Smaller; thighs of the viale tridentate beneath. 



Hab. Port Natal, 



This species may be separated from its congeners by the dif- 

 ferent form of the apical third of the upper surface of its hinder 

 femora ; the general form of the body is also shorter and stouter 

 than in any of the allied species. 



Sagra Stevensi, n. sp. 

 Elongato-oblonga, obscure metallico-viridis, sub-nitida, thorace 

 tenuissime punctato, transverso (apice modice producto prse- 

 termisso), lateribus fere rectis, angulis anticis modice pro- 

 minulis ; elytris basi sat elevato-marginatis, intra humeros 

 valde sulcatis ; infra basin vix transversim impressis, tenuiter 

 punctato -striatis, striis per paria sat approximatis, apicem 

 versus deletis, interstitiis tenuissime punctatis, tenuiter reti- 

 culato-aciculatis. 



