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apex, and very minutely serrated on the sides towards the ex- 

 tremity. Body beneath and legs brassy, punctate and subnitid. 



431. — Anthaxia nigra, n. sp. 

 Length 2^ lines. 

 Differs from the last in being much smaller, in being entirely 

 black, in having the median line of the thorax slightly marked in 

 front, and in having the scutellum raised in the centre. 



The three last species agree in having the base of the thorax 

 roundly lobed in the centre and sharply at the posterior angles, 

 and in so far differ materially from the typical form of Anthaxia. 



NoTOGRAPTUS. n. gen. 



This genus seems to be nearly allied to Anthaxia. The 

 antennae are identical, the epistome, the head, the eyes, the palpi, 

 the position of the antennal pores, the form of the antennal 

 cavities, the prosternum, raetasternura and legs likewise accord in 

 almost every particular. The labrum, however, is rounded at the 

 apex, the thorax is transverse, rounded on the sides, considerably 

 narrowed at the posterior angles, and bisiuuate at the base with 

 a central broadly rounded lobe. The scutellum is small, of the 

 form of an equilateral triangle, and depressed ou the surface. 

 The elytra are broad and rather flat. 



432. NOTOGRAPTUS SULCIPENNJS. n. sp. 



Length 4| lines. 

 Brownish black, very opaque, densely punctate. Forehead 

 clothed with white hair, and with two small tubercles between the 

 eyes. Thorax with three broad longitudinal depressions clothed 

 with silvery hair, the central one being on the median line. 

 Elytra as broad as the thorax at its broadest part, rounded at 

 the humeral angles, and conjointly rounded at the apex, with two 

 broad longitudinal depressions on each elytron, one extending 

 from the humeral angle downwards and inwards for two-thirds of 

 its length, the other outside of the first and short. Under side of 

 body and legs black and subnitid. 



