some new Species of Sagra, Sfc. 251 



very minute punctures, which are only visible under a lens. Scu- 

 tellum dark shining metallic-green, longitudinally grooved. Elytra 

 sub-elongate, narrowed behind, their surface impressed within the 

 shoulders, distinctly punctate-striate, the striae closely approxi- 

 mating in pairs, intervals between the double rows remotely im- 

 pressed with rather less distinct punctures than those on the striae 

 themselves; these punctures are wanting in the single female 

 before me. Prosternal process obsolete. 



Male. — Intermediate thighs produced beneath into a compressed 

 acute tooth, posterior pair extending for a third of their length 

 beyond the apex of the elytra, incrassate and resembling an 

 elongate club, the upper edge narrowly but distinctly grooved 

 along the posterior two-thirds of its length ; outer edge of the 

 groove elevated, and forming (when viewed from within) a distinct 

 ridge, inner surface excavated at the base, and clothed with coarse 

 fulvous pubescence ; lower edge indistinctly denticulate, furnished 

 before the apex with a short ridge, the apex of which is produced 

 into a stout conical tooth, in front of which is a deep notch ; 

 tibiae of the same pair curved at the base, nearly straight towards 

 the mucronate apex, furnished on either side just before the latter 

 with a nearly obsolete obtuse tooth ; inner surface tuberculate at 

 the base ; basal segment of abdomen longitudinally depressed, 

 deeply but sub-remotely punctured, clothed with a few coarse 

 fulvous hairs. 



Female. — Intermediate thighs armed beneath with an obtuse 

 tooth, posterior pair scarcely extending beyond the apex of the 

 elytra, their lower edge obsoletely denticulate, furnished before 

 the apex with a short denticulate ridge, the anterior extremity of 

 which is produced into a short tooth. 



Hab. Congo. 



The male in my own collection, without precise locality, for- 

 merly belonged to the Rev. W, Kirby, and was sent to him by 

 M. Du Freme. The female, from Congo, is in the British 

 Museum, It ought to stand near S. bicolor, and it forms a link 

 between the section in which I have placed it and the succeeding 

 one ; in the absence of a prosternal process and in the punctation 

 of the elytra it agrees with the former, whilst on the other hand 

 the toothed intermediate thighs ally it to the latter group. 



Sagra Murrayi, n. sp. 

 Late elongata, postice attenuata, casruleo-viridis, sub-nitida ; 

 aniennis corporis dimidio longioribus, thorace sub-quadralo, 

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