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as the margins of the abdominal segments; tibiae longitudinally 
chanelled, fuscous, unarmed; claws bifid; the first jomt of the 
posterior tarsi nearly as long as the three following joints 
together; anterior coxal cavities open. 
Hab. Australia, Somerset (L. M. D’Albertis). 
All the structural characters (with the exception of the palpi 
and the antennae which are less slender) being the same as in 
Sastra, I have placed the present species in that genus; S. lim- 
bata Baly is larger, the elytra are of a metallic purplish hue 
and longitudinally sulcate, the punctuation is not rugosely but 
simply punctate, the legs are more slender and entirely fulvous. 
50. Sastra Beccarii, n. sp. 
Black; head and thorax rufous, the former distinctly punctu- 
red, the latter angulate at the sides; elytra finely punctured 
and pubescent, pale fulvous, a broad transverse band at the 
base, black. 
Length 4 lines. 
Head with a few deep punctures and a longitudinal central 
groove; the frontal tubercles trigonate, strongly raised, testaceous; 
palpi slender, fulvous; antennae two thirds the length of the 
body, black, the second joint short, the third longer than the 
two basal joints together; thorax scarcely twice as broad as 
long, shining, with two very deep transverse and an equally 
deep longitudinal depression, the sides angulate before the 
middle, narrowed below the latter, the surface with a few 
punctures at the raised portions of the disc; scutellum obscure 
piceous, broad; elytra closely and finely punctured, the sides 
with a single longitudinal costa, not extending to the apices, 
the anterior first third of their length, black, the rest pale 
fulvous, finely pubescent; underside and legs black; the first 
joint of the posterior tarsi nearly as long as the three following 
joints together; claws bifid; anterior coxal cavities open. 
Hab. New Guinea, Hatam, June (Beccari). A single specimen. 
