new Coleoptera ffom MeddUii. \21 



anterior part of its inner margin is marked by a well developed 

 obtuse triangular tooth.* Thorax a very little (one-seventh) 

 longer than broad, very slightly convex, constricted at the apex, 

 narrowed before the middle, gently arcuate at the sides, the 

 broadest part a little before the base, with a few large punctures 

 in the middle near the base, red, with five large black spots, one 

 discoidal anterior, one at each anterior angle, and a triangular 

 one on each side of the base. Elytra at the shoulders very little 

 broader than the thorax, gradually (but not much) narrowed 

 towards the apex, rather deeply striated, the stria3 distinctly but 

 not very closely punctured, interstices very slightly convex, dull 

 red, with a black spot common to both elytra at the scutcllum 

 and another at the apex, each elytron has also three rather large 

 black s2:)ots, one just within the shoulder, another in the middle 

 near the suture, and a third near the apex extending from the 

 fourth stria to the margin. There are a few rather large punc- 

 tures scattered on the middle and sides of the prosternum; the 

 metasternum is very strongly punctured at the sides, the middle 

 portion as well as the middle of the first and second abdominal 

 segments are broadly and rather strongly impressed; the sides of 

 the abdomen and the aj)ical segment are strongly punctured. 

 Legs smooth, the middle of the femora and tibia? pitchy-red; 

 the tibite have the inner apical half sinuate, especitdly the four 

 posterior in Avhich the commencement of the sinuatiou is marked 

 by a tuft of stiff hair. 



HISPID Ji. 



Arescus Icevicollis, u. sp. 



Flavus, nitidus; capite l^vi, f route canaliculata, anteunis 

 nigris, articulis tribus basalibus subtus fiavis; thorace paulo 

 transverso, Itevi, angulis auticis extus leviter sinuatis, lateribus 

 rectis, posticis acutis ; scutello cyaneo-nigro ; elytris striato- 

 punctatis macula humcrali dimidioque apicali cyaneo-nigris; 

 tarsis tibiisque anticis nigris. Long. 5^ lin. 



Close to A. laMatus, which it resembles in form, but, besides a 

 coloration which I have not met with in any varieties of that 

 species, it differs in having the thorax entirely destitute of punc- 

 tu.res, the inter-antennal production of the head is broader and 

 truncate at the apex. The sutural angle of the elytra has a 

 small obhque truncature without any tooth at the suture. 



* Something similar is seen in some other species of this g-enus, but 

 I have not seen any in which it is so pronounced. 



