1890.] COLLECTED BY MR. BONNY. 645 



Family LAGRHDiE. 



Lagria, Fabr. 



Examples of three species, one apparently L. ohscura, Fabr., the 

 others undeterminable. The specimens of these latter are insufficient 

 for description, even if they should prove to belong to undescribed 

 species. 



Family Melgid.^;. 



Eletica, Lac. 

 Eletica bicolor, sp. n. (Plate LVI. fig. 8, S •) 



Moderately elongate, parallel ; above and l)eneath and the legs and 

 antennae black ; the elytra from the base to beyond the middle bright 

 red, immaculate, for the rest black ; the head, the basal half of the 

 prothorax, and the elytra almost glabrous, shining, the elytra duller 

 towards the apex ; the anterior half of the prothorax, the scutelhim, 

 the entire under surface, the basal joint of the antennae, and the legs 

 (the inner side of the femora excepted) densely clothed with long, 

 fine, silky, appressed yellowish-grey pubescence. Head coarsely, 

 irregularly, and somewhat closely punctured, the occiput a little 

 smoother, longitudinally grooved down the middle, the groove much 

 more deeply impressed between the eyes and on the forehead ; 

 (antennae mutilated) ; prothorax broader tl;an long, the sides almost 

 parallel behind and obliquely converging in front, the base very 

 sharply margined, the anterior half transversely depressed, densely 

 and finely punctured, and pubescent, the posterior half glabrous and 

 with only a few very widely scattered punctures in the middle and 

 at the sides, the disc sharply canaliculate (the median channel 

 ending in a deep impression before the base and replaced on the 

 densely punctured portion of the surface by a smooth central line) 

 and with a large shallow depression on either side behind the 

 middle; scutellum densely punctured, the punctures confluent and 

 much coarser in the middle ; elytra nearly twice as wide as the 

 prothorax, parallel, transversely and irregularly wrinkled, and with 

 two distinct longitudinal ridges on the disc and a short sharp ridge 

 near the suture at the base, the suture also raised towards the base, 

 the ridges on the disc becoming sharper and more distinct towards 

 the base and fainter towards the apex, the apices broadly rounded 

 externally and truncate and a little retracted towards the sutural 

 angle ; beneath very densely and finely, the legs densely and more 

 roughly, punctured. 



Length 20i, breadth 8 miUim. ( S ■) 



Allied to E. rufa (Fabr.), but differing from the corresponding sex 

 of that variable species by the peculiar sculpture of the thorax and 

 by the coarsely punctured upper portion of the head. The densely 

 punctured, pubescent, and depressed anterior portion of the thorax 

 is very sharply delimitated from the smooth and glabrous posterior 

 portion ; the entire under surface is very densely clothed with long, 

 silky, appressed, yellowish-grey pubescence, the legs also being very 



