Mr. C. E. Broome on a new species 0/ Mclaiiogastcr. 41 



nato, elytris ochracescenti-viridikus, corporc subtus i)C(libapque 



metallico-viridibus, rubro-tinctis. Long. (5" unc. 1, lin. 4 ; ? unc. 



1. lin. 3. 



Hab. Abyssinia. 



(J $ in Mus. " Hon. E. Ind. Co." ; ? in Mus. Brit. T. Horsficld, 

 M.D. Hoc insectum in bonorem 'J'homjc Horsfield, M.D., Faunae 

 Flora;que Javanicae insularumque orientalium aliarum scrutatoris 

 celcberrimi, nominavi. 



Male. — Head above brown, on under side in sonic lights of a 

 brilliant deep blue or bluish grccu ; the clypeus excavated on 

 under side at base of fork. Thorax and scutcllum above of a rich 

 deep rusty brown colour, the former narrowly margined with 

 bright green, growing fainter where the thorax joins the scutcl- 

 lum ; sides and under side metalhc green. Elytra of a faded 

 yellowish green, the surface dimpled; on the sutm'c and near the 

 scutellum lively green. 



Female. — Head and thorax rich rusty brown, posterior half of 

 the latter rather paler. El}'tra plainer than in male and of a more 

 lively green with the suture golden ; lateral edge of elytra as in 

 the male, with many light-coloured cilia which extend to the apex ; 

 the shoulders and a spot near the apex bro\ATi ; under side and 

 legs of a bright coppery red, segments slightly margined with 

 green ; tarsi of all the legs and tibiae of fore-legs brownish. 



VII. — Description of a neiu species of iMelanogaster. By C. E. 

 Broome, Esq. 



To Richard Taylor, Esq. 

 Sir, 

 May I be permitted through the medium of your Jom-nal to de- 

 dicate to my friend the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, to whose unwearied 

 researches mycology is most deeply indebted, a pretty, new spe- 

 cies of Melanogaster which I have lately met with in this neigh- 

 bourhood ? The characters are as follows : — 



Melanogaster Berkeleianus , n. s. Parvus, globosus, longe radicatus ; 

 peridio sericeo albo, tactu gilvo fusco, intus pallida flavo ; sporis 

 minutis oblongo-ellipticls hyaliuis albis, binucleatis. 



The single specimen hitherto found was about the size of a 

 pea, fm-nished with a long white root, which, as well as the silky 

 white globose peridium, changed on the touch, or exposure to the 

 air, to a pink-brown ; the intei-ior is of a delicate pale yellow, 

 which is permanent ; the textiu'c of the walls of the cells is loosely 

 cellular ; spores elliptic-oblong, hyaline, containing two or some- 

 times three globose nuclei. In the form and colour of the spores 

 this species very much resembles Octaviana aphrodisiaca of Mon- 



