1890.] COLLECTED BY MR. BONNV. 641 



belongs to it. The sharply margined subquadrate thorax, the 

 dilated and excavate, broad penultimate joint of the tarsi, the sharply- 

 toothed claws, the posteriorly narrowed head, and the elongate, 

 somewhat cylindrical shape distinguish Sterces from the other 

 known genera of Cnodalonides. The genus is perhaps best placed 

 between Camarimena and Acropteron. 



Sterces resplendens, sp. ii. (Plate LVI. figg. 3, J ; 3 a, 

 labium ; 3 b, maxilla and maxillary palpus ; 3 c, anterior tarsus.) 



Head and prothorax black, the latter with a slight violaceous 

 lustre ; the scutellum black ; the elytra bright metallic green, this 

 colour (in certain lights) changing to violaceous towards the suture 

 and along the lateral margins ; shining. Head somewhat flattened, 

 depressed in the middle between the eyes, finely, deeply, and rather 

 closely punctured, the epistoma smoother ; antennae black, joints 

 6-10 broad, transverse, 6-8 subtriangular, 11 about one half longer 

 than 10 ; prothorax as long as broad, subquadrate, narrowing a little 

 in front and slightly sinuate at the sides behind, the hind angles 

 acute and directed outwards, the disc broadly transversely depressed 

 in the middle before the base and obsoletely canaliculate in front, 

 the surface finely, irregularly, and rather sparsely punctured (the 

 punctuation finer than that of the head), a longitudinal space down 

 the middle impunctate ; scutellum smooth ; elytra very finely 

 punctate-striate, the interstices quite flat and with very minute 

 widely scattered punctures ; .beneath very shining, blackish-violaceous, 

 very sparsely and minutely punctured, the first three ventral seg- 

 ments also with very fine shallow longitudinal rugae ; legs black, the 

 femora broadly m.arked with reddish-testaceous beyond the middle 

 (the apex and base alone black), the tibiae and tarsi thickly, the 

 femora very sparsely, punctured, all the tibiae shghtly dilated within 

 at the apex and somewhet curved, the femora glabrous. 



Length \^\, breadth 5 millim. ( c? •) 



One example. 



Nesioticus, "Westw. 



Nesioticus FLAvopiCTUs. (Plate LVI. fig. 4, var.) 



Nesioticus flavopictus, Westw. P. Z. S. 1842, p. 121 ; Trans. Z. S. 

 iii. p. 227, t. 15. f. 13 ; Thorns. Arch. Ent. ii. p. 92, t. 3. f. I. 



Numerous examples. These differ from the type in the shape of 

 the transverse flavous basal fascia of the elytra, and they form a 

 well-marked variety : the fascia extends inwards to a little nearer 

 the suture and usually has a short additional ramus extending for- 

 wards from its point of termination. 



Strongylitjm, Kirby. 



Strongylium atroviolacedm, sp. n. (Plate LVI. fig. .5.) 



Elongate, parallel, opaque, bluish-black, the head in front and 

 the elytra obscure violaceous. Head distinctly grooved between the 



