258 Rev. H. S. Gorham's descrijjtwns of 



The present genus is very close to Lemidia, and those 

 who think a genus so restricted in geographical range, as 

 that appears to be in the Eastern hemisphere, can reappear 

 in a longitude and latitude where conditions of life are 

 so very different, will probably see no good reason for its 

 separation. Yet so many insects have been referred to 

 Lemidia which have no connection with it generically, that 

 I am disinclined to add to the number even where the 

 characters are very similar, from so improbable a habitat. 



There is, moreover, a very different facies in the beautiful 

 little Clerids, which I connect under a name designed to 

 express their parallelism to the Australian type. The 

 only specimens I have seen are in Mr. Fry's collection, 

 and were collected by Mr. Bates, with the exception of 

 one, /. suhtilis, discovered by Mr. Fry at Rio, which is, 

 however, doubtfully associated with them. The most 

 obvious differences between these insects and Lemidice 

 (apart from their very singular coloration) are the com- 

 parative largeness of the eyes, the more cylindrical and 

 more deeply- constricted prothorax, the much less ob- 

 vious and more atrophied basal joint of the tarsi, and, it 

 I am not deceived, the truncate apex of the maxillary 

 palpi. 



Isolemidia pulchella, n. sp. 



Elongata, sub-parallela, ferruginea, nitida, capite et 

 prosterno fusco-piceis, elytris nigris, obsolete punctato 

 striatis, apice rotimdato-truncatis ; basi, regione scutellari, 

 macula juxta suturam et basin, fasciaque subapicali laate 

 viridibus, lucidis; antennis (apice excepto) tibiisque viri- 

 dibus, corpore supra et infra, pedibusque setis nonnuUis 

 vestitis. 



Long. 3 1 lin. 



Head Avider than thorax ; eyes large, very prominent, 

 finely facetted, front hollowed between them ; epistoma 

 with an obscure red spot ; mouth pitchy, maxillary palpi 

 red, labial red, with the hatchet-shaped terminal joint 

 greenish. Thorax longer than wide, a well-defined con- 

 stricted line in fi'ont, and equally constricted but not so 

 sharply behind, sides wideued, rounded. Elytra shining 

 black, the entire base narrowly, the space round the scu- 

 tellum (which is black) a spot posterior to this, and a 

 fascia about a third from the apex, of a beautiful light 

 emerald green ; the fascia externally shades into blue. 



