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XVII. New Species of Agra in the Collection of Mr. W. W. 
Saunpers. By H. W. Bares, F.Z.S. 
[Read 1st May, 1865.] 
Wuitst engaged in studying this difficult genus in the preparation 
of the foregoing paper on the Amazonian species, I have been en- 
trusted with the examination of the Collection of Agr@ belonging 
to Mr. W. W. Saunders, and finding therein four well-marked 
new species, have obtained permission to describe them by way of 
supplement, 
Agra Valentina. (Pl. XX. fig. 7, 2.) 
A. robusta, nigra; capite ovato, pone oculos usque ad collum 
sensim rotundato-attenuato ; antennis nigris, articulis (2 ) 8— 
11 abbreviatis, 8° brevissimo, ovato; thorace capite haud 
longiori, medio Jato, antice subito attenuato, episternis con- 
vexis, dorso plano, postice vage punctato; elytris oblique 
truncatis, apice suturali dehiscenti, angulo externo acuto, 
dorso striato-punctato, punctis latera versus majoribus, re- 
motioribus, striis 2-3 foveolis variis; pedibus nigris, tibiis 
compressis, tarsis articulo ultimo lato. 
Long 9 lin. 9 
Closely allied to 4. latipes, Chaudoir (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1861, 
p- 112), but more robust, and the elytra quite free from metallic 
lustre. ‘The head is similar in shape, i. e. somewhat regularly 
oval and impuncetate, but it is a little shorter; the thorax differs 
in being much broader in the middle, and the breadth is still fur- 
ther increased by the convexity of the episterna; the surface is 
more even and the punctures more scattered and less deeply im- 
pressed. The elytra are of the same shape as in 4. latipes, being 
sinuated before the middle and then again dilated before the apex, 
but the rows of punctures differ greatly in having each a number 
of much larger punctures, and in the lateral rows having all the 
punctures larger and more distant. The legs and tibie are similar 
in form, but the basal joint of each tarsus is rather broader and 
has a mere rounded outline ( ¢ ) than the same sex of 4. latipes ; 
the claw joint is broad. 
One example, from Columbia (Venezuela). 
