THE 



TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF 



LONDON 



FOE THE YEAR 1877. 



I. Descriptions of twenty new species of Coleoptera from 

 various localities. By Chas. O. Waterhouse. 



[Eead Gth December, 1876.] 



List of Species. 



Catascopus cupreicollis. 

 Adelotopus collaris. 



„ marginatus. 



Paussotropus (g. n.) parallelus. 

 Alaus nodulosus. 

 Iiidotsenia cupreovaria. 



„ purpureipennis, 

 Psiloptera scintillans. 

 Sphenoptera andamanensis. 

 Nascio Enysi. 



Matliesis (g- n.) guttigera. 

 Elytrurus expansus. 



„ angulatus. 



„ divaricatus. 



„ serrulatus. 

 Diastatropis olivaceus. 

 Bradycnemis (g. n.) velutina. 



„ anomala. 



Stenaspis plagiata. 

 Haploscelis abdominalis. 



CARABID^. 



Catascopus cupreicollis, sp. n. 



Supra cupreo-Eeneus, subnitidus ; tliorace cnpreo, elytris 

 striis fortiter impressis, interstitio septimo costulato, 

 corpore subtus Eeneo, coxis abdomineque piceis. 



Long. 4§ lin.; lat. 1§ lin. 



Head mth some fine longitudinal scratches on the 

 vertex; clypeus coppery. Thorax coppery, a trifle 

 broader than long, central channel very deep, the sides in 

 front of the usual lateral seta nearly parallel (scarcely 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. 1877.— PART I. (APR.) B 



