44 
Psyche 
[March- June 
no. 22,512) was captured at Nadamvatu, Viti Levu, Fiji 
Islands, by Dr. W. M. Mann. This species is colored like 
D. maculatus H. Deyr., but differs from all previously known 
Diceropygus in the very short pronotum. 
Diceropygus variegatus n. sp. (PI. IV, Fig. 5) 
Length: 9.75 mm.; breadth: 3.6 mm. — ( 7^). Elongate, 
distinctly more attenuate posteriorly than in front; elytra 
slightly widened at the posterior third ; color purple above, 
with the suture, a narrow band reaching from the humeral 
depression to the anterior fifth, and another submarginal 
one at the middle of the elytra, green. Beneath purplish 
black ; tarsi cyaneous. 
Head less wide than the anterior margin of the pronotum, 
nearly flat in front, very densely and strongly punctured. 
Epistoma slightly emarginate, not distinct from the front; 
eyes large; antennae rather long, the base of the first joint 
yellow. 
Pronotum widest at the middle, nearly twice as wide as 
long, and a little less than once and a fourth as wide at base 
as the anterior margin. Anterior margin strongly bisinuate, 
margined ; the sides feebly rounded, sinuate in front of the 
posterior angles, which are acute and slightly divergent. 
The base slightly bisinuate, without distinct median lobe. 
The sides bordered by a smooth, curved carina, reaching 
from the base to the anterior angles, which are rounded, the 
posterior angles acute and feebly divergent. Disk regularly 
convex, slightly flattened at middle, with a little depression 
in front of the scutellum, strongly and sparsely punctured, 
the punctures more sparse at middle. 
Scutellum wide, twice as wide as long, rounded posteriorly, 
truncate in front, very finely strigose. 
Elytra a little wider at the shoulders than pronotum at 
base, widest at apical third ; the sides straight and diverging 
from the shoulders to apical third, then arcuately attenuate 
to tips, the sides very strongly and sharply serrate from the 
middle to apex, where the serration is less strong. Disk with 
a close punctuation disposed in longitudinal series, without 
distinct striae; the intervals scarcely convex, the ground 
microscopically sculptured. 
Anterior margin of the prosternum nearly tranversely 
