300 THE INSECTS OF GAYNDAH, 



644. — Atractos vitticollis. n. sp. 

 Length 4.^ lines. 

 Red, subnitid, punctate and clothed with a very short pale 

 pubescence. Head bi'oad, and not narrowed behind the eyes, 

 with a black spot on the forehead. Thorax not broader than the 

 head, longer than the width, and not narrowed in front, with a 

 central black vitta. Scutellum black, and rounded behind. 

 Elytra broader than the thorax, and rugosely striato-punctate, 

 with a purplish gloss in the middle. A.bdomeu and legs piceous 

 brown. 



645. — Atractus rugosulus. n. sp. 

 Length 4 lines. 

 Piceous black, subnitid, coarsely punctate and pubescent- 

 Thorax of the same form as in the preceding species, but of a 

 bronzy black, with the median line distinct. Elytra dark red 

 and very rugosely striato-punctate, with a slight greenish tinge 

 on the suture. 



This and the species before it, A. viticollis, might also I think 

 be separated from Atractus. 



646. — Chromom^a Mastersii. n. sp. 

 Length 3|- lines. 

 Bronzy black, nitid, and punctate. Thorax longer than the 

 width, and not narrowed in front, with the median line deeply 

 impressed at the base. Scutellum black. Elytra red and pro- 

 foundly striato-punctate. Legs red. Antennse brown. 



647. — Chromomjia picea. n. sp. 

 Length 5 lines. 

 Dark piceous with the elytra and legs of a redder hue, nitid, 

 and finely punctate. Thorax scarcely longer than the width, and 

 slightly rounded at the anterior angles, with a shallow fovea near 

 the middle of each side, and the median line slightly impressed 

 at the base. Elytra much broader than the thorax and finely 

 striato-punctate, — the interstices broad and flat. Abdomen 

 black, finely pubescent. 



