316 Mr. E. Saunders’ Catalogue of Buprestide 
ated ; posterior angles each with an oblong fovea, the fovez ex- 
tending along the sides; near the anterior angle on each side is 
a white pubescent spot. Elytra dull olive-green, three times as 
long as broad ; sides slightly sinuate as far as the middle, where 
they swell out slightly, and then gradually converge to the apex, 
which is rounded and multidentate ; the central spine on each 
elytron is longer than the rest ; disk minutely rugose, with a scaly 
appearance, and slightly pubescent. Abdomen extending beyond 
the elytra on each side, giving them an appearance of swelling 
out considerably just beyond the middle ; on the first segment on 
each side is a white pubescent spot. Beneath bronzy, covered 
with a white pubescence. Legs punctured. 
Length 43 lines; breadth 1, 
Siam. 
Agrilus octonotatus, n. sp. 
A. capite ereo-nigro, punctato; thorace viridi-nigro, lateribus 
flavipubescentibus ; elytris nigris, minute rugosis, utrisque 
maculis tribus flavis ornatis : Subtus punctatus, pectoris late- 
ribus flavipubescentibus, maculisque duabus in utroque abdo- 
minis segmento albipubescentibus. 
Head dull bronzy black, punctured, the punctures arranged in 
transverse striz, above the mouth covered with a white pu- 
bescence. Thorax dark greenish-black, narrower behind than in 
front, anterior margin rounded, sides rounded, posterior angles 
almost right angles, base with a deep lobe; disk deeply punctate- 
striate transversely, dorsal line marked by two shallow depres- 
sions, one at the base, the other near the anterior margin; sides 
foveated, the surface of the foveze covered with bright yellow pu- 
bescence. Elytra three times as long as broad, of the same colour 
as the thorax, covered with scale-like rugosities ; sides subparal- 
lel for two-thirds of their entire length, then converging to the 
apex, which is multidentate, the central spines on each elytron 
being longer than the rest ; each elytron with three spots of a yellow 
pubescence, one at the base, the second about one-third of the 
entire length from it, the other about one-third from the apex. 
Abdomen bordering the elytra beyond the middle, exhibiting-a 
yellow spot on each segment. Beneath punctured, pubescent ; the 
sides of the breast covered with a yellow pubescence ; each seg- 
