288 THE INSECTS OF GAYNDAII, 



ttorax, a little enlarged behind, terminating in a minute spine, 

 covered with large punctures, and of the most varied splendour 

 of colouring, being golden on the suture, of a ruby colour next, 

 then metallic green, and reddish purple towards the sides behind. 

 Antenna, legs and body beneath, black. 



696. — Atryphodes opacicollis. n. sp. 



Length 9 lines. 

 Elongate, black, opaque. Head marked with a stirrup shaped 

 impression in fi'ont. Thorax longer than the width, narrower at 

 the base than in front, and emarginate at both apex and base, 

 with the anterior angles rather prominent and subacute, the sides 

 gradually rounded to near the base, then subabruptly narrowed 

 until close to the posterior angles when they become straight and 

 make with the emargination of the base the posterior angles 

 acute, and with a distinct median line and a broad sublateral de- 

 pression giving the appearance of a broad margin. Elytra rather 

 narrower than the thorax, subangular and somewhat reflexed at 

 the humeral angles, marked with ten deep sti'ise counting the 

 lateral one on each elytron, and with the interstices convex and of 

 equal size. Under surface subnitid. Tarsi piceous. 



597. — Atrtpho[)ES pithecius, Pasc. Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 1869, page 39. 



598. — Atryphodes Mastersii. n. sp. 



Length 6| lines. 

 Of a bronzy olive, subnitid. Head marked with a stirrup 

 shaped impression. Thorax a little broader than the length, 

 emarginate in front, very slightly so at the base, a little narrower 

 at the base than at the apex, with the sides gradually rounded, 

 the anterior angles advanced and subobtuse, the posterior angles 

 acute, the median line well marked, the sublateral depressions 

 moderately so leaving a rather broad marginal space in the 

 middle, and the base deeply impressed near the posterior angles. 

 Elytra rounded at the humeral angles and marked with eight deep 

 striae on each elytron, — the lateral striEe lightly punctate, — and with 



