64 Mr. J. O. Westwood's Descrijjtions of Species 



are scarcely visible from above ; the scutellum is not punctured ; 

 the elytra, under a lens, are very finely punctured, the punctures 

 wide apart. The shoulders and subapical tubercles of the elytra 

 are black, the podex punctured closely. The body beneath is 

 dark green and polished, slightly and finely punctured, except the 

 sides of the metasternum and coxae, which are closely punctured. 

 The legs are dark green, the spines of the fore tibise black, the 

 four hind tibiae black, slightly glossed with green, with the tarsi 

 black. 



The maxillae in the female (fig. 4rt) have the inner lobe not armed 

 with an acute tooth, being but slightly produced, the outer lobe 

 is acute and horny ; the mentum (fig. 4b} is widest in the middle, 

 the anterior margin deeply emarginate in the centre ; the meso- 

 sternum (fig. 4 c, seen from beneath, fig. 4rf, sideways) is very 

 sllgluly produced and obtusely rounded. 



Tmesorrhina Saundersii, Westw. n. s. (PI. VI. fig. 5.) 



Viridis, fortiter nigro-punctata, capite antice vix emarginato, 

 epimeris viridibus, nee aureis ; pedibus nigro-viridibus, tarsis 

 omnibus nigris. 2 



Long. corp. lin. 12 (unc. 1). 



Habitat in Africa tropicali Occident. In Mus. Saunders, 



This species is intermediate in size between T. concolor, Westw. 

 (Thoreyi, Schaum), and Iris, Fab. {amabUis, Bainbridge). It is 

 of an uniform rich dark green colour, densely punctured with 

 black punctures, those of the head being very close together, and 

 some of those of the disk forming a few irregular lines. The head 

 is oblong, the anterior lateral angles rounded, the front margin 

 very slightly emarginate. The antennae black, with the basal 

 joint dark green. The maxillae (fig. 5 a) with a very short point 

 at the extremity of the basal lobe, and with the upper lobe rather 

 obtusely pointed. All the palpi are black, the mentum dark green, 

 deeply punctured and clothed with black hairs, with the front very 

 deeply emarginate. The pronotum is less conical (wider behind) 

 than in T. concolor, being nearly of the shape of that of T. Iris. 

 The scutellum is also more equilaterally triangular than in T. con- 

 color, and moderately ))unctured except at the tip. The elytra 

 are elongate, subparallel, thus resembling T. concolor, being but 

 little narrow behind, punctured as in T. Iris (but rather more 

 coarsely), and witii similar short curved strigae near the extremity 

 of the lateral and sutural margins. The legs are dark green, with 

 black punctures and strigae ; the anterior tibitB are not strongly tri- 



