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their diagnostic characters, so far as I have been able to 

 fix them from M. Perroud's long descriptions. The first 

 — 8. insignis — is supposed to be identical with Icldliyo- 

 soma mirahile, Montrouz. {non Boisd.), and is from San 

 Christoval (the easternmost of the Salomon Islands). It 

 is somewhat brassy green, the elytra have five bands, the 

 humeral angles are produced into a sort of pad [hourrelet), 

 the angles of their truncated apices are slightly spined, 

 and each elytron has ten slightly '' sulciform striae ^^ 

 marked with one or two rows of punctures more or less 

 coarse. The second — ;S'. Mniszeclivi — is supposed to be 

 from Amboyna, and ought to be in the collection of 

 Count Mniszech, but is not. The head is glossy black, 

 a little bronzed ; the prothorax is a glossy greenish- 

 black (?;o/7- t'enZrUre), between the two lateral lobes is a 

 sharp tooth, which is not so large as the one below the 

 margin; the elytra are also greenish-black, but with 

 violet reflections, and three bands, the shoulders are pro- 

 longed into a sort of plate, and the external angle of their 

 truncated apices is produced into a short sharp tooth, 

 each elytron has ten striae with the commencement of an 

 eleventh near the scutellum. The labrum is said to hide 

 the mandibles ; this, if strictly correct, would be very 

 remarkable. 



Mr. Wallace tells me of another species from Dorey 

 in the possession of Dr. Mohucke, " green with bands 

 of dead gold.^^ With regard to the new species described 

 below, it is not only obviously very distinct from any 

 of the above, but, in its coloration, it is quite different 

 from any other in the whole sub-family, and is as large 

 as the largest specimen of 8. mirahilis. 



Spliingnotus lurrabiUs . 



Tmesistermis mirahilis, Boisduval, Voy. de FAstrol. ii. 

 468, pi. viii. fig. 5. 



S. nitidissimus, cyaneus, viridis, vel feneo-viridis ; pro- 

 thorace utrinque unidentato ; elytris haud sulcatis, 

 albo-bifasciatis, apicibus truncatis, extus breviter 

 mucronatis. 



Hah. — Mysol, Ceram, Waigiou, Dorey, Av\x. 



Dark blue, green, or brassy-green, the head and 

 prothorax blue, violet, purple, or copper v, but alwnvs 



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