Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse on neio Buprestida?. 325 



Very like P. rujicauda^ Th., in general colour and sculp- 

 ture, but much more parallel in form ; the thorax scarcely 

 narrower than the elytra, parallel at the sides to very near 

 the front angles, then suddenly obliquely narrowed. The 

 elytra are not at all expanded below the shoulders ; the broad- 

 est part is behind the middle ; the three or four dorsal lines 

 are impressed, the rest are only lines of line punctures ; the 

 second interstice has a line of small punctiform pilose impres- 

 sions, and there are numerous others on other parts of the 

 elytra ; each elytron has two large round impressions, the 

 first is at the middle of the elytron, not quite touching the 

 margin ; and attached to this is a small spot on what would be 

 the fourth interstice ; the second large spot is close to the 

 apex; the apex is narrowly tiuncate and pilose (not com- 

 pressed), the outer angle dentiform. The prosternal process 

 is moderately tliickly punctured, with a strongly impressed 

 line on each side. The middle of the metasternum is almost 

 smooth, but has a median impressed line. The apical seg 

 luent of the abdomen has two longitudinal smooth lines j I 

 know of no other species which has this character. 



Coccinellopsis sohrina. 



Ovalis, sat convexa, fere nigra, sat nitida ; elytris singiilatim maculis 

 tribus aiiratis impressis, marginibus impressis sat erebre punctu- 

 latis ; corpore subtiis cupreo ; abdominis segraento ultimo poHto, ad 

 basin punctate, ct in medio punctis nonuullis asperso. 



Long. 10-13 lin. 



Very close to C. auriventris^ L. & CI., and scarcely to be 

 distinguished on the upperside from that species. It differs 

 below in the apical segment of the abdomen. This segment 

 in auriventris is smooth, with a triangular punctured space at 

 the base on each side, bounded by a pubescent oblique line ; 

 the middle of the base is left smooth. In C. sobrina the 

 punctuation is carried all across the segment at the base, and 

 the middle portion is also always more or less punctured. 



The colour of the underside is less bright than in C. auri- 

 ventrisj and is more or less purple-coppery ; and the reflexed 

 margins of the elyti'a are bluish green. 



One specimen has a little brassy colour at the sides of the 

 sterna and on the femora ; and the reflexed margins of the 

 elytra are coppery. 



Coccinellopsis Iceviventris. 



Fusco-a>nea, nitida, sat lata, antice et postice attenunta ; elytris 

 convoxis, ad apicem dcclivis, guttis nonnullis pilosis impressis, 

 Ann. c£) Mag. N. Hint. Ser. 5. Vol. ix. 23 



