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Dr. A. Gunther on a Collection of 
Diabrotica rugata. 
D. subelongata, postice vis ampliata, subtus fulva, nitida, pec- 
tore nigro-piceo; supra nigra, antennis (apice excepto) fulvis ; 
thorace transverso, rufo-fulvo, rude rugoso-punctato, disco trans- 
versirn excavato, lateribus fere rectis ; elytris minus nitidis, rudo 
rugosis, elevato-vittatis, limbo laterali fulvo. 
Long. 44 lin. 
Ilctb. Ecuador. Collected by Mr. Buckley. 
Head much longer than broad, wedge-shaped; lower 
portion of front longitudinally depressed; encarpEe nearly 
obsolete ; carina linear ; labrum nigro-piceous. Antennae fili¬ 
form, equal to the body in length; the second joint short, the 
third nearly three times its length, three fourths the length of 
the fourth ; the seventh and eighth joints stained above with 
piceous, the three outer ones black. Thorax more than twice as 
broad as long; sides parallel, slightly sinuatebehind the middle; 
the anterior angles thickened, obtuse, the hinder ones subacute ; 
disk coarsely rugose-punctate, transversely excavated across 
the middle, the excavation broad, nearly straight, more deeply 
impressed at either end. Scutellum trigonate, its apex sub¬ 
acute, its surface shining, impunctate. Elytra oblong, scarcely 
dilated posteriorly, very coarsely rugose; each elytron with 
four more or less distinct raised vitta3; the general surface 
black, the outer limb, dilated at the apex, fulvous. 
[To be continued.] 
VIII .—Notice of a Collection of Reptiles from Islands of 
Torres Straits. By Dr. A. Gcnther, F.R.S. 
The Rev. S. MacFarlane has continued to pay attention to the 
reptiles of the islands situated between New Guinea and Aus¬ 
tralia. In my notice of the first collection (Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 1877, vol. xix. p. 413) information was missing as re¬ 
gards the particular islands in which the specimens had been 
collected. This information can be supplied as regards the 
present collection, which was formed partly in Murray, partly 
in Cornwallis Island. The following is the list of the species 
collected:— 
Lizards. 
Cornwallis 
Island. 
1 . Odatria timorensis , Gray. 
2 . - prasina , Mulh ...... * 
3. Monitor chlorostigma , Cuv. .... * 
4. Lialis punctulata. Gray ..... # 
5. CryptoblepJiarus poecilopleurus , Wiegm. 
Murray 
Island. 
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