1228 THE INSECTS OF THE VICINITY OF KING’s SOUND, 
184. Bubastes cylindricus, n.sp. 
Cylindrical, narrow, nitid. Head brassy-black, punctate, a 
large roundish fovea on the forehead between the eyes. Thorax 
brassy-black, punctate, wider than the head, very slightly wider 
than long, cylindrical, bisinuate at the base, with a fovea at the 
base of the median line, and four smaller fovea3, two near the 
middle and two at the base. Elytra of a dark violet hue with 
purplish reflections, elongate, rather narrower than the thorax, 
and more than four times the length, very gradually narrowed to 
the apex, bidentate at the apex, rather irregularly striate, very 
densely punctate, the first few strife from the suture larger and 
more coarsely punctate than the others. The under surface is of 
a brilliant cyaneous colour, with a scanty whitish pubescence 
about the sides. 
Long. 6, lat. IJ lines. 
I am not quite confldent as to this being a Buhastes. I have 
never seen the typical and only previously known species of the 
genus — B. splienoida^ and I cannot venture to examine very 
minutely the only specimen I possess of the present insect. 
185. Melobasis lauta, n.sp. 
Elongate- oval, sub-depressed, golden red above, coppeiy red 
beneath, and of metallic lustre throughout. Head flnely and 
densely punctate, a broad very shallow depression between the 
eyes. Thorax transverse, punctate — thinly in the middle, densely 
towards the sides, the base a little wider than the apex. Elytra 
scarcely wider than the thoi'ax and nearly four times the length, 
sub-obtusely pointed at the apex, the sides serrate on the apical 
half, minutely and rather irregularly striate-punctate -on the 
disk, becoming densely and rugosely punctate towards the sides, 
with a large cyaneous vitta extending from near the base to near 
the iipex, and including the suture, excepting a short portion at 
the base. 
Long. 6, lat. 2 lines. 
