Mr. C. O. Waterhouse on new Species of Coleoptera. 215 



cum. The thorax has on each side below a broad oblique 

 impression for the reception of the antennas. 



I have only seen a single specimen of this species, in Colonel 

 Shelley's collection. 



Lepturinae. 

 Sagridola quinquemaculata, Waterh. 



This species was described by myself from a female exam- 

 ple *. A male in very imperfect condition has lately come 

 into my hands. It differs from the female in having the 

 posterior femora much incrassated and furnished beneath near 

 the apex with a tooth ; the anterior tibia? are much stouter 

 than in the female, and are densely clothed beneath with 

 golden pubescence. Nearly the whole basal portion of the 

 elytra is yellowish, clothed with bright yellow pubescence, 

 but having a black spot on the shoulder, a second behind the 

 shoulder, and one common to both elytra below the scutellum. 

 This coloration is more probably a variation than a sexual 

 character. 



The specimen is from Antananarivo. 



(Haucitinse. 

 Iresioides sericeovittata, n. sp. 



Picea, nitida ; thorace vittis quatuor aureo-sericeis notato ; elytris 

 ad apicem singulatim rotundatis, sutura, vitta mediana margiue- 

 que laterali aureo-sericeis. 



Long. l\h lin. 



This species differs from all the species known to me in 

 having the elytra separately rounded at the apex and not 

 truncated ; the antennas are, moreover, less slender ; but these 

 differences being less pronounced when compared with the 

 smaller species of the genus, I think it best at present to 

 associate this species with them. Head with a raised median 

 line above ; this and the front of the head coarsely punctured, 

 the rest clothed with yellow pubescence; the antennal tubercle 

 incrassated round the base of the antenna? in front, a little 

 elevated on the inner side. Antenna? rather stout, one fourth 

 longer than the whole insect in the male, reaching a little 

 beyond the middle of the elytra in the female, reddish pitchy, 

 the apices of the joints nearly black ; the basal joint strongly 

 punctured. Thorax scarcely as broad as long, a very little 

 narrower in front than before the base, slightly constricted 

 before the front and before the base, coarsely punctured, and 

 with some transverse ruga 1 , with four impressed longitudinal 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 187-">, xv. p. 414. 



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