348 On CoJeoptera of the Famihj Biiprestlclte. 



closely and finely puiietured. Tlie metastcrnuni and ahdo- 

 men are fjolden coppery, with green shades. The apical 

 segment of the abdomen is triangularly emarginate. 



Long. 41, lat. 15 mm. 



Hab. W. Africa, Akropong (Hif/Iett). 



In its short broad form this most nearly resembles C. auri- 

 ccnida, Saund., l)ut it is not quite so short as that is. It 

 differs from that and nearly all the species (except Bennettii) 

 in having the punctures on the dorsal region of the elytra 

 arranged in lines. The posterior lateral angulation of the 

 elytra is very strong, almost acute. The space close to the 

 posterior angles of the thorax is finely rugose, but this 

 character may not be constant. 



Steraspis arabica, sp. n. 



Head black, with green and coppery lines in front. 

 Thorax broad, black, obliquely narrowed in front, almost 

 parallel behind the middle, with a deeply impressed median 

 line, moderately closely and strongly punctured on the disk, 

 rugose at the sides, with a rugose coppery impression ex- 

 tending from the anterior angle to the base, where it is much 

 narrower than in front. The punetuies coppery. Elytra 

 more parallel than is usual in this genns, black, with obscure 

 coppery punctuation, vhicli gives them a brown ajjpearance. 

 The punctuation is a cry fine and irregular. The raised 

 shining black intervals make the surface irregularly rugu- 

 lose, except that near the seutellum there are some longitu- 

 dinal lines. Prosternum bisulcate. Abdomen shining 

 steel-blue, each segment with a broad, finely punctured, 

 and pubescent coppery fascia on each side, leaving a narrow 

 median smooth line on the second, third, and fourth 

 segments. 



This species is allied to S. speciosa, having the abdomen 

 banded in somewhat the same way and the thorax with a 

 median impressed line, but the elytra are finely rugulose, 

 without longitudinal lines except in the scutellar region. 



Long. 40, lat. 1.5 mm. 



Hub. Arabia, jVIuscat {Dr. Jayakar). 



[To }je continued.] 



