20 The Bardo do Castello de Paiva on two new Coleoptera. 
and the fellow-labourer with Mr. Webb in the elaborate ‘ His- 
toire Naturelle des Iles Canaries.’ 
Fam. Buprestidae. 
Genus SPHENOPTERA. 
(Dejean) Solier, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, ii. 229. 
Sphenoptera Bertheloti, Paiva. 
S. elongato-obtriangularis, angusta, nitida, subvirescenti- et subsenes- 
centi-cuprea; capite prothoraceque (preesertim versus latera) sat 
dense punctulatis, hoe lineis duabus dorsalibus virescentibus plus 
minus obsoletis longitudinaliter ornato; elytris leviter striato- 
punctatis, sutura interstitiisque alternis postice paulo elevatis, 
utroque ad apicem ipsum 3-spinoso (spina suturali minutissima) ; 
antennis pedibusque concoloribus. 
Long. corp. 53 lin. 
Habitat “ad varias arbores et frutices spinosos agri Loandensis.”’— 
Dom. Welwitsch. 
S. angusta, elongato-obtriangularis (7. e. antice lata, postice regu- 
lariter et facile acutior), sat nitida, subvirescenti- subeenescenti-que 
cuprea, ubique minutissime et dense punctulata. Caput et pro- 
thorax (preesertim ad latera) punctis majoribus notata ; i//ud antice 
late concavum, postice magis convexum ; Aoc apice capitis latitudine et 
ibidem leviter sinuato-emarginatum, postice paulo sed gradatim latius, 
margine postice undulato-sinuato, lineis duabus dorsalibus virescenti- 
bus plus minus obsoletis longitudinaliter ornatum. lytra obtrian- 
gularia (7. e. apicem versus regulariter acutiora), striato-punctata, 
sutura interstitiisque alternis (postice saltem) paulo elevatis, utrumque 
ad apicem ipsissimum in spinas tres acutissimas parvas productum,— 
sc. suturalem minutissimam, mediam longiusculam et lateralem inter- 
media longitudine. Antenne et pedes concolores. 
This fine Sphenoptera, although at first sight allied to several 
recorded species, appears to be distinct from all hitherto described; 
and it does not tally with the diagnoses of any of the seven 
members of the genus given by Boheman in his ‘ Insecta Caf- 
fraria.’ It is rather more variegated than the generality of the 
Sphenoptere, and is remarkable, amongst other peculiarities, 
for the two longitudinal metallic lines (which, however, are 
sometimes so exceedingly indistinct as to be almost obsolete) 
down the disk of its pronotum. 
Fam. Lamiadz. 
Genus TRaGIScOoscHEMA. 
(Chevr.) Thomson, Arch. Ent. i. 67. 
Tragiscoschema Welwitschii, Paiva. 
T’. cylindricvum, pube brevissima demissa albida et atra densissime 
