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Ovate, slightly widened posteriorly ; head impunctate, with a deep fovea 

 between the eyes ; antennae about half the length of the body, the second 

 and third joints very small and equal, the intermediate ones compressed. 

 Thorax twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, the anterior angles 

 thickened and prominent, the surface with a deep but short transverse 

 depression at each side, finely and sparingly punctured ; elytra with a 

 longitudinal groove within the shoulders, as finely punctured as the thorax, 

 except within the humeral depression, where the punctures are stronger, the 

 punctuation arranged in rather regular rows ; abdomen more or less fulvous. 



This species resembles somewhat S. fulgida, Redt., in its 

 metallic cupreous colour, but is very much smaller, and is 

 distinct by the fine punctuation of the thorax and the elytra; the 

 colour of the upper side is a dull reddish cupreous, that of the 

 head is more bluish. 



Two specimens. 



Leptarthra intermedia, n. sp. (PI. I., fig. 12.) 



Oblong-ovate, dilated posteriorly, metallic blue or violaceous ; thorax 

 with transverse and longitudinal depressions ; elytra pale fulvous, finely 

 punctured with semi-regular double rows of larger punctures ; abdomen 

 pale fulvous. Length, 5 — 6 lines. 



Closely allied to L. dolimi, Baly (Merista ruflpennis, Harold), but quite 

 distinct; much smaller, and less convex and dilated; the first three joints 

 of the antennae metaUic blue, the rest black, extending to more than half 

 the length of the body ; thorax scarcely perceptibly punctured, metallic blue 

 or violaceous, the sides with a deep transverse depression, the middle of the 

 disc with a longitudinal groove, which assumes the shape of a fovea near the 

 base ; scutellum dark blue ; elytra dilated, with a very faint depression 

 below the base, the surface finely and closely punctured, with more regular 

 rows of larger punctures partly arranged in pairs near the suture. 



The punctuation of the elytra in L. intermedia, of which 

 three specimens are before me, will at once distinguish this 

 species from L. dohrni, in which the elytra are finely and evenly 

 punctured throughout, and have also a deep transverse depression 

 below the base, besides being very strongly widened posteriorly ; 

 all other characters are very similar in both species. L. abdo- 

 minalis, Baly, has the elytra strongly and irregularly punctured. 



Leptarthra grandipennis, Fairm. 



This species seems to me to be identical with L. dohrni, 

 Baly. 



Taphinella longicornis, n. sp. 



Black, the head, thorax, and legs pale fulvous ; antennae as long as the 

 body ; thorax finely punctured, transverse ; elytra black, finely punctured. 

 Length, 1J line. 



Head with a few, extremely minute punctures ; eyes large and pro- 

 minent, the frontal elevations broadly trigonate, nearly contiguous, bounded 

 behind by a deep transverse groove ; palpi slender ; antennas as long as the 

 body, slender, the third joint smaller than the second, both very small, the 

 others elongate, nearly equal, the three basal and the terminal one fulvous, 

 the rest black : tborax transverse, the sides nearly straight, the anterior 

 angles oblique, thickened, the surface with an obsolete depression at each 

 side, finely and sparingly punctured ; elytra black or piceous, finely but not 



