ON NEW SPECIES OP PAEACUPTA ANB CONOGNATUA. 331 



Descriptions of ten new Species of the Genus Paracupta, H. 

 Deyrolle, and of ten new Species of the Grenus Conognatha, 

 Eacholtze. By Edwakd Saunders, Esq. 



(Plate X.) 

 [Read December 3, 1868.] 



The following pages contain characters of twenty new species of 

 Buprestida) belonging to the genera Paracupta, H. Deyrolle, and 

 Conognatha, 'Ei^choltzG. The former of these was created by M. 

 Henri Deyrolle in his ' Buprestides de la Malaisie ' to include a 

 section of the ancient genus Chrysodema, which differs from it by 

 having, besides other characters, the tarsi and antennae flavous or 

 clear brown. The species at present known are mostly from the 

 East-Indian Islands, the Eijis, and the New Hebrides. The lat- 

 ter genus, Conognatha, has long been known for the beauty and 

 brilliancy of its species, all of which come from South America. 

 For some of those here described I have to thank Mr. A. Pry, 

 who has very kindly lent mo thein for that purpose. 



Genus Paracupta, II. Deyr. 



P. LoRQuiNii {H, Deyr. MSS.). (Tab. X. fig. 1.) Viridis, elytrorum 

 apice cupreo, pedibus antcnnisque flavis, thorace quatuor fovcis lon- 

 gitudinaUbus impresso ; elytris valde striato-punctatis, posticc dcnticu- 

 latis tribus impressionibus latcralibus ; subtus punctata. 



Bright green, with the apex of the elytra cupreous. Antennae and tarsi 

 flavous. 



Head punctured, deeply excavated between the eyesj on each side 

 of the excavation is a short smooth raised Une. Thorax widest at 

 the base, once and a half as broad as long ; anterior margin emar- 

 ginate ; sides nearly straight, with only a slight bend quite near 

 the posterior angles ', base very shallowly lobed ; disk with a deep 

 dorsal line, on each side of which are two oblong impressions reaching 

 from the base almost to the anterior margin ; the raised lines between 

 these foveae are very deeply, though remotely, punctured. Elytra wider 

 than the thorax at their base, posterior margins deeply denticulate. 

 Surface striate, the stria; rugosely crenate on the sides ; the fourth and 

 sixth interstices are interrupted below the middle of the elytra, and 

 thereby cause two shallow impressions, the outer one being rather 

 above the other ; the eighth interstice is elevated, and the space be- 

 tween it and the lateral margin somewhat depressed. Beneath aiul 

 legs punctured, covered, especially on the sides of the abdomen, with 

 a very fine silken pubescence. 



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