474 Mr. J. O. Westwood's neiv species 



punctures in the black portions, all tlie white markings 

 being impunctate ; these markings are very numerous and 

 irregular ; tliej are chiefly undulating and transverse on 

 the disc, the outer margin of each and the apex, extending 

 upwards along the suture, being broadly white. On the 

 disc are to be observed faint traces of two broad longi- 

 tudinal costjB. The podex is densely covered with minute 

 punctures. The body beneath is entirely black, the me- 

 tasternum with a strong central imjjressed line, the ab- 

 dominal segments convex ; the legs short and strong, the 

 anterior tibioe with three teeth, the four posterior ones 

 with a sharp central spine in the middle of the outer edge, 

 the inner edge fringed with black hair ; the anterior tarsi 

 are unusually long and slender. 



Length 22 lines; width of shoulders of elytra Up- 

 lines. 



Habitat Limpopo. In Mus. Higgins. 



Chalcothea aiiripes, lYestw. (PI. VII. fig. 2.) 



Tota opalino-viridis, fere impunctata, capite postice, 

 tibiis tarsisque aureo-cupreis ; clypco proflmde bifid o, 

 medio lateribusque elevatis punctatis ; prothorace angulis 

 posticis prominulis, disco pone medium sulco profundo 

 longitudinali impresso, lateribus crebre punctatis et mar- 

 ginatis ; scutello in medio depress© ; elytris latis, convexis, 

 sutura depressa ; tuberculo ordinario acuto, apice ipso nec- 

 non pygidio transverse aciculatis ; mesosterno lined tenuis- 

 sima nigra vix impresso, segmentis abdominalibus con- 

 vexis la3vibus, penultimo serie subraarginali punctorum, 

 apicali leviter punctato ; pedibus elongatis, tibiis 4 posticis 

 extus in medio inermibus. 



Long. Corp. lin. 17 ; lat. humer. elytrorum lin. 1\. 



Habitat Borneo. In Mus. D. Higgins. 



Gymnetis suhpunctata. (PI. VII. fig. 5.) 



Piceo-atra, velutina; capite integro punctatissimo, 

 elytris sutura costisque duabus parum elevatis, lateribus 

 discoqvie prope suturam guttis nonnullis stramiueis fascia- 

 que tenui irregulari undulata subapicali ejusdem coloris ; 

 pedibus pra^sertim basi anticorum rufo-hirtis ; metasterno, 

 coxis posticis, et lateribus abdominis lutescentibus, nigro- 

 punctatis; prosterno acuminate deflexo,setoso; mesosterno 

 parum porrecto (PI. VII. fig. 6a). 



Long. Corp. lin. 10 ; lat. burner, elytr. lin. 5. 



Plabitat Ecuador. In Mus. Higgins. 



