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New Buprestid Beetles 
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including the scutellar one which is short, extending only 
from the base to anterior third and then united to the 
sutural one ; the intervals between the costae very finely and 
densely punctate, less shining than the costae. The first costa 
only is entire ; between the second and third costae, near the 
humerus, there is a short obsolete costula. Beneath very 
shining on the smooth spaces, and sparsely punctured. 
Prosternal episterna and a broad depression on each side of 
the abdominal segments finely and densely punctate and 
covered with a very fine recumbent pubescence. The last 
segment with a small triangular emargination at the apex. 
Prosternum feebly convex; the prosternal process strongly 
grooved, strongly punctured in the region of the sulcus. 
Described from a single specimen (type, Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology no. 22,507) collected at Taviuni, Somo 
Somo, Fiji Islands, by Dr. W. M. Mann. There is also, in the 
British Museum's collection, a specimen of this new species 
captured in the Fiji Islands by Mr. Evans. This specimen is 
a little smaller. 
The description of this species agrees pretty well with that 
of Paracupta dilutipes Fairm., Pet. Nouv. Ent. II., 1878, p. 
278, from the same region; the type of this species seems to 
be lost. Fairmaire’s description is so short that it is quite 
useless ; the author says : “Elongata, antice posticeque fere 
cequaliter attenuata, modice convexa, fusco-cenea, metallica; 
foveis duabus prothoracis vittaque elytrorum marginali 
cupreis griseo-sericeis ; subtus dense luteo sericans , medio 
fere Icevis; antennis pedibusque fiavo-testaceis, femoribus 
paulo obscurioribus ; elytris post medium attenuatis, parum 
profunde striatis, intervallis fere planis, strigosis.” P. evansi 
is evidently “bicolor” above. The expressions in Roman type 
in Fairmaire's description, above, seem not to agree with 
the description of P. evansi mihi. 
Paracupta manni n. sp. (PI. Ill, Fig. 2) 
Length: 19 mm.; breadth: 6 mm. — Elongate, rather 
acuminate posteriorly. Above uniformly golden green with 
reddish tinge at the tips of the elytra. Beneath light cupre- 
ous ; antennae and legs light brown. 
Head rather wide, with a triangular depression in front, 
