from British New Guinea. 13 



British New Guinea, Babooni [A. E. Pratt) ; Mount 

 Victoria {A. S. Anthony/). 



Dark green, in some specimens more or less tinged with 

 olivaceous ; underside of the liead with the 'psilp'i and an- 

 tennae, anterior coxa and femora, intermediate coxse, and in 

 some specimens the hinder part of the prosternum rufous, 

 tinged with green. Head finely punctured, and more sparsely 

 so at the base ; clypeus long, very deeply cleft, and without 

 any raised margin. Thorax coarsely punctured at the sides, 

 more finely and very sparsely punctured on the disk, strongly 

 widened at the base, the basal angles being produced, de- 

 pressed, and obtuse, the side margins rather strongly raised 

 on the basal three fourths, the basal lobe long, narrow, and 

 rounded at its apex. Elytra with two slightly indicated 

 discal costse and some rows of coarse punctures, which become 

 obsolete towards the base and merge into the coarse trans- 

 verse strigosity with which the apical half is closely covered; 

 sides a little dilated at the shoulders, where the marginal 

 line is deeply impressed, the apex rather strongly produced 

 towards the suture and slightly emarginate at the sutural 

 angle. Pygidium transverse, subconical, coarsely strigose, 

 the underside a little flattened towards the apex in the male, 

 and in the female with a large central depression, having a 

 strongly raised semicircular apical border, tjnderside coarsely 

 strigose and sparsely pubescent at the sides; mentum, pro- 

 sternum, and anterior coxse and femora with long rufous hairs ; 

 mesosternal process long, obliquely divergent, and sharply 

 keeled on the underside near the apex ; abdomen obliquely 

 strigose, the fifth segment with very coarse setiferous punc- 

 tures, and in the male with a strong central furrow ; anterior 

 tibia simple in the male, and with a slight subapical tooth in 

 the female. 



This fine species is very distinct from any with which I 

 am acquainted, but from the description of L. Beccari, Gest., 

 it would appear to be allied to that species. The colour is 

 very similar to that of L. virens and Latreillei, but rather 

 more metallic. 



Lomaptera lutea, sp. n. 



Lutea vel tcstacea, nitida, prothoracc elytrisque opalino-iiidcs- 

 centibus ; capita postice, prothoracc ruacula magna M-formi, 

 mctasterno in parte mediana, femoribus apice, tibiis anticis et 

 internaediis, posticis apice tarsisque omnibus nigris ; abdomine 



