some new Species of Sagra, 5^c. 245 



ATale. — Posterior pair of thiglis considerably longer than the 

 elytra, strongly incrassate, their inner surface furnished near its 

 lower border with a narrow stripe of fulvous pubescence ; lower 

 edge denticulate, produced near the apex into a flattened tridentate 

 plate, the middle tooth of which is elongate, slightly curved and 

 denticulate on its posterior margin; upper surface indistinctly 

 carinate ; tibiae of the same pair arcuate at their base, thence 

 nearly straight to their apex, the latter mucronate; inner surface 

 on its outer edge, immediately before the apex, deeply eraarginate, 

 the inner edge obsoletely ti'.berculate ; basal segment o? abdomen 

 flattened, indistinctly excavated, remotely punctured, sparingly 

 clothed with short fulvous hairs. 



Var. A. Nearly one-half smaller, hinder thighs extending for a 

 short distance beyond the apex of the elytra, glabrous within, their 

 lower edge denticulate and produced just before the ap?x into a 

 short tridentate ridge, the two outer teeth of which are small and 

 indistinct ; posterior tibiae arcuate, simple, their apex mucronate. 



This insect varies in the degree of punctation and also in the 

 coloration of the elytra ; the interspaces are minutely punctured 

 and sub-granulose, and covered with distinct irregular sinuosities, 

 wiiich become more crowded near the apex of the elytra, their 

 interstices on that portion being irregularly wrinkled ; in the 

 var. A. the elytra are smoother, and the colour of the elytra for 

 the most part is rufo-aureous, with a violet tint, narrowly edged 

 with bright metallic blue; in my specimen of var. A. the elytra are 

 bright igneous, bordered with metallic blue. 



Hab. Northern India, Sylhet. 



This beautiful little species, unknown to Lacordaire, is now not 

 uncommon in our collections ; a single specimen of var. A. is in 

 my own cabinet. 



Sagra luc'ida, n. sp. 

 Oblongo-elongata, laete purpurea, nitida ; antennis robustis, 

 corporis dimidio vix longioribus ; thorace latitudine paullo 

 longiori, sub-cylindrico, margine antico modice producto, 

 angulis anticis vix prominulis ; elytris oblongis, intra huiT)eros 

 modice impressis, basi paullo elevatis, infra basin leviter 

 transversim depressis ; tenuiter punctato-striatis, striis sub 

 lente aewre distinguentibus. 



Fcem. — Femoribus posticis elytra non superantibus, subtus ante 

 apicem crista brevi denticulata instructis ; tibiis ejusdem paris 

 simplicibus. 



Long. 6 lin. 



Oblong-elongate, deep shining metallic-purple. Head impressed 



