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



on the forehead with a deep round fovea ; antennae robust, 

 thickened towards their apex, scarcely longer than half the body, 

 last four joints black, opaque. Thorax rather longer than broad, 

 sub-cylindrical, anterior margin moderately produced, anterior 

 ancrles scarcely prominent; above shining, ivnpunctate. Scutellum 

 transverse-quadrate, its apex obtuse. Elytra oblong, moderately 

 impressed within the shoulders, the latter sub-prominent ; basilar 

 space indistinctly elevated, bounded beneath by a shallow trans- 

 verse depression ; smootlr and shining, very finely punctate- 

 striate, the striae, which are visible only under a lens, placed at 

 regular intervals on the surface. 



Female. — Posterior pair of thighs not extending beyond the 

 elytra, their lower edge furnished just before the apex with a 

 short denticulate ridge ; posterior tibiae simple. 



Hab. (jape Coast. 



Collection of Major Parry ; also in my own cabinet. 



This beautiful insect belongs, through the elevated basilar space 

 of its elytra, to the first division of the genus ; its male pro- 

 bably resembles that of S. Senegalensis. 



Sagra emarg'inata, n. sp. 



Elongata, cuprea, laete rufo-cuprea, purpureo-micans ; antennis 

 extrorsum purpureis, subtus nitida, supra sub-opaca ; thorace 

 sub-cylindrico, latitudine pauUo longiori, angulis anticis vix 

 prominulis ; elytris sub-parallelis, apicem versus attenuatis, 

 singulatim apice leviter emarginatis, supra intra humeros 

 impressis, tenuiter punctato-striatis, striis per paria vix ap- 

 proximatis. 



Mas. — Femoribus posticis elytra parum superantibus, subtus 

 ante apicem creta brevi basi dente parvo munita instructis, 

 tibiis ejusdem paris curvatis, apice vix mucronatis; abdominis 

 segmento primo longitudinaliter excavato, sub-crebre punc- 

 tato, laxe flavo-tomentoso. 



Foem. — Femoribus posticis elytris non superantibus, glabris, 

 subtus ante apicem cretd brevi basi dente parvo munitd 

 instructis, tibiis posticis curvatis. 



Long, mas 5 — 6 lin. ; foem. 8 lin. 



Elongate, cupreous or rufo-cupreous, with purple reflexions ; 

 body beneath shining, above sub-opaque, six terminal joints of 

 antennae dark purple. Head sub-remotely punctured, front im- 

 pressed with a longitudinal fovea; antennae robust, more than half 

 the length of the body. Thorax sub-cylindrical, rather longer 



