BY W. MACLEAY, ESQ., F.L.S. 295 



625. — Amarygmus picipes. n. sp. 

 Length 5^ lines. 

 Shorter and broader than the last, with the elytra green, sub- 

 nitid, and a little more largely punctured than in the former 

 species, and the legs entirely of a piceous brown. In other 

 respects like A. rufipes. 



626. — AmaryCtMus opacicollis. n. sp. 

 Length 6 lines. 

 Oblong-ovate. Head black, punctate, and flat between the 

 antennae, with the eyes prominent and not covered by the thorax. 

 Thorax brassy black, opaque, and minutely punctate. Elytra much 

 broader than the base of the thorax, of a purplish blue colour be- 

 coming green towards the sides, subnitid, and marked on. each 

 elytron with eight rows of small closely placed subelongate 

 punctures. Under side of body, antennee and legs, dark brown 

 and subnitid. 



627. — Amarygmds grandis. n. sp. 

 Length 9 lines. 

 Oblong-ovate. Head black, punctate, with the eyes large and 

 approximate. Thorax short, narrow in front, coppery black, sub- 

 opaque, and very minutely punctate. Scutellum black, triangular, 

 and smooth. Elytra cyaneous at the suture and showing green, 

 purple, blue, and coppery red reflexions over the rest of their sur- 

 face, with regular rows of small punctures, and the interstices 

 minutely and somewhat rugosely punctate. Under surface black, 

 subnitid, minutely punctate and striolate. Legs and antennas 

 brownish -black. 



628. — Amarygmus cdpreus, Fabr. Syst. Ent., page 

 123 ; Syst. El. II., 2Ktge 12 ;— Oliv. Ent. III., 

 58, page 7, t. 1, /. 6. 



1 am not quite positiv-e as to the identity of this insect. 



629. — Amarygmus rugosicollis. n. sp. 

 Length 8 lines. 

 Oblong-ovate. Head black, and densely punctate, with the 



