202 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



b 2 . Body black, subopaque ; antennae long and 



stout No. 3. 



c 2 . Body black, more or less shining; elytra 

 cinereo- or albo-fasciate, or with denser 

 pubescence in the post-basal depression* . Nos. 4-9. 

 d 2 . Body partly rufescent; elytra more or less 



fasciate or maculate Nos. 10-13. 



e 2 . Body black, shining; elytra not maculate . Nos. 14-17. 

 f 2 . Body piceous, brown, or ferruginous. 



a 3 . Elytra! interstices without setigerous 

 punctures. 



a 4 . Elytra unicolorous Nos. 18-30. 



b i . Elytra testaceous, with suture darker; 



head and prothorax narrow . . . No. 31. 

 b 3 . Elytra! interstices with conspicuous seti- 

 gerous punctures No. 32. 



b 1 . Elytra without definite rows of punctures; 



body black Nos. 33-35. 



b. Antennal joints 9-11 shorter, 10 transverse : 

 species small, length not over 2| mm. ; elytra 

 not or feebly striate Nos. 36, 37. 



1 . Macratria becearii. 



IMacratria becearii, Pic, Ann. Mus. Genova, xl, p. 597 

 (1900). 



Elongate, moderately robust, shining, sparsely clothed with long, 

 adpressed, cinereous hairs ; black, with a metallic blue lustre in 

 certain lights, the maxillary palpi (the infuscate apical joint excepted) 

 and mandibles, the antennal joints 1-6 or 7 (in one specimen, 9> 

 at the base only), and the tips of the tarsi, more or less testaceous, 

 the femora sometimes ferruginous at the base. Head a little longer 

 than broad, nearly or quite as wide as the prothorax, considerably 

 developed behind the moderately large eyes, rounded and emarginate 

 at the base, closely, minutely punctate; antennae long, slender, 

 with joints 9-11 stouter and greatly elongated, 3-8 decreasing in 

 length in <^, 9 about three times the length of 8, 11 slightly longer 

 than 10. Prothorax elongate, strongly attenuate anteriorly, not 

 compressed on the flanks posteriorly, closely, finely punctate, the 

 basal groove sharply defined. Elytra moderately long, much wider 

 than the prothorax, gradually narrowed from the base, flattened on 

 the disc ; closely punctate, the punctures on the anterior half coarse, 



* Except in 31. bicincta, Mars., var. 



