1937] 
New Buprestid Beetles 
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NEW BUPRESTID BEETLES COLLECTED IN THE 
SOLOMON ISLANDS AND FIJI ISLANDS BY DR. W. M. 
MANN, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME OTHER NEW 
INDO-MALAYAN SPECIES 
By A. Thery 
Attache au Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris 
The present paper contains descriptions of new species of 
Buprestidae collected, for the most part, by Dr. W. M. Mann 
in the Solomon Islands and the Fiji Islands. I have to thank 
my colleague, Dr. P. J. Darlington, of the Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology, Harvard College, Cambridge, U. S. A., in 
whose care Dr. Mann’s insects are at present placed, for 
lending me the specimens here described. 
Genus Paracupta H. Deyr. 
Paracupta meyeri Kerr., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. XLIV, 1900, 
p. 63. 
This species is still very rare in collections ; one $ speci- 
men only was captured by Dr. Mann, at Mt. Victoria, Viti 
Levu, Fiji Islands; I have compared this specimen with the 
unique type in the collection of the British Museum to which 
it is exactly similar. Kerremans’ description is not quite 
exact ; the author states that the five furrows of the prono- 
tum are uninterrupted ; as a matter of fact only the two ex- 
ternal and the median furrows are so, the two others are 
lightly interrupted at the middle. The Kerremans Collection 
at the Paris Museum contains a specimen of this species. 1 
Paracupta evansi n. sp. (PI. Ill, Fig. 1) 
Length : 19 mm. ; breadth : 6.5 mm. — Elongate, navicu- 
lr The first collection of the late Mr. Kerremans was sold to the 
British Museum in the year 1903. A new collection containing the 
species described by this author from 1903 to 1915 was divided after 
his death; the African species except those of Madagascar have been 
purchased by the Musee du Congo, at Tervueren (Belgium), the rest 
of the collection by the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle at Paris. 
