54 Mr. C. J. Gahan on new Species of Longicornia 



enough and finely punctured, dark brown, tinted with violet, 

 the colour changing slightly in different lights ; prolonged 

 somewhat at the base on each side of the scutellum, and each 

 provided with a small tubercle at the extreme margin of the 

 base. Intercoxal process of the abdomen somewhat obtusely 

 pointed in front. 



This species fits into Lacordaire's second section of the 

 genus; and had that author not described the elytra as 

 " saturate prasinis " I should hare been inclined to regard it 

 as his Nyphasia Pascoei. His description leads me to believe 

 that the elytra are more closely punctured in his species, 

 which, moreover, is from a different locality, viz. Siam, and 

 no mention is made by him of tubercles at the basal margin 

 of the elytra. 



Xylotrechis Hampsoni, n. sp. (PI. VII. fig. 1.) 



llufo-testaceus ; capite longitudinaliter sulcato, obsolete carinato ; 

 prothorace fasciis tribus sulphureis, fasciis anticis mediisque 

 interruptis; elytris fasciis quatuor sulphureis — fascia antica lineata 

 obliqua, fascia secunda triangulari, fasciis duabua posticis trans- 

 versis — apicibus truncatis, angulis externis dentatis ; corpore sub- 

 tus sulphureo-fasciato ; antenuis dimidio basali rufo, dimidio 

 apicali fusco. 



Long. 15, lat. 4| mm. 



Hah. Nilghiri Hills. 



Head with a median longitudinal groove extending from 

 the clypeus to near the occiput, with the sides of the groove 

 scarcely raised ; with a short carina on each side of the front 

 just over the insertion of the antennas. Prothorax with three 

 sulphur-yellow transverse bands, the first a little behind the 

 anterior border and slightly interrupted in the middle, the 

 second just behind the middle and made up of four spots, the 

 third on the basal border and at the sides united with a short 

 longitudinal spot ; with the space between the intermediate 

 and basal yellow bands dull black and sparsely and minutely 

 granulate. Elytra with an oblique black band on each side 

 near the base, these bands meeting at the suture and thence 

 produced forwards and spreading out a little on each side of 

 the scutellum ; with a narrow sulphur-yellow fascia occupying 

 the middle of each of the black fasciae and stopping short 

 before reaching the suture ; with a broad sulphur-yellow 

 fascia somewhat in the form of a triangle a little in front of 

 the middle of the elytra ; with two transverse yellow fasciee 

 behind the middle, of which the posterior is less distinct than 

 the anterior. Legs reddish ferruginous, with the intermediate 



