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near the tip on the same margin, are rudiments of two small 

 patches of pale coloured pile. The legs are black and of mode- 

 rate length, and the underside of the body is black and glossy, the 

 fifth abdominal segment bearing a central longitudinal impression. 



Sp. 6. Ahnjna notlia, Newman.* (PI. XXV, fig. 2.) 

 With the view of rendering my illustrations of this genus more 

 complete, I have added a figure of this species, from the type in 

 the British Museum collection. 



It is a subcylindrical form, the elytra being about twice as long 

 again as they are broad. The antennae are black, with the third 

 and fourth joints red brown ; the prothorax black, with a greenish 

 tinge, and armed with two tubercles on each side near the fore 

 angles ; the elytra are purplish blue and glossy, and the middle 

 and posterior tibiae clothed with aureous pubescence. 



Genus Acronia,'| Westw. 



Genus novum Niphonce, Stheniadi et praesertim Eudesmo aflBne, 

 difFert imprimis antennarum brevitate, prothorace inermi, 

 corporeque metallico. 



Corpus subcylindricum, pedibus subbrevioribus. Caput pro- 

 thoraci latitudine fere aequale ; facie quadrata, fere plana. 

 Antennee ad basin longe distantes, lateribus capitis excavatione 

 intra-oculari infixae, vix prothorace longiores ; articulo Imo 



* "Antennae laBsse, distantes, facies lata, punctis magnisaspera, oculiad anten- 

 narum basin divisi, prothorax punctus, punctis magnis conspicuis, lateribus tubere 

 antico armatus ; elytra lateribus convexa, apice rotundata, puncta, punctis basin 

 versus magnis, apicem versus minutis, meso- et meta-tibiae extus apice dense hirsulae 

 aureae ; nigra, fulgore chalybeo obsolete lincta, meso- et meta-pleura albida, seg- 

 mentorum abdominis Imum semialbidum. Corp. long. '65 unc. ; lat. '225 unc." 

 Newman, op. cit. p. 290. 



Mr. Newman has added another species of Abryna, differing somewhat in form 

 from any of the preceding species, under the name of (Abryna) comosa, Newman, 

 Entomologist, p, 323. 



" Antennae corpore breviores, subfuscae, graciles, basi distantes ; oculi ad anten- 

 narum basin divisi, facies dense comosa, obscure ochracea, epicranium ochraceo 

 fuscoque varium ; prothorax capita latior, lateribus fere rectus, dentibus 2anticis 

 armatus, quarum antica minuta margine ipso sita, fusco-cinereus, margine postico 

 rectus; elytra prothorace laliora basi subpustulosa, apice rotundata, cinerea, 

 apicem versus strigis nonnullis obliquis fuscis ornata ; pedes mediocres ; propedes 

 caeteris longiores, fortiores ; femoribus tumidis, meso-tibiis vix emarginatis. Corp. 

 long. -45 unc. ; lat. -2 unc." 



* 'Axfwi'a, partium extremarum (i.e., antennarum) aroputatio. 



