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Show 1890.] COLLECTED BY MR. BONNY. 643 larly punctured; scutellum with a few fine punctures ; elytra about one third broader than and fully four times as long as the prothorax, parallel, a little flattened on the disc, coarsely striate-punctate from the base to the apex, the punctures oblong in shape and becoming finer towards the suture and larger and deeper towards the sides, the interstices very minutely and very sparsely punctured, flat on the disc, moderately convex towards the sides, the shoulders very little swollen and not prominent; beneath very shining, bright metallic green, with golden and cupreous tints, the propleurae, the sides of the meso- and metasternum, and the metasternal episterna very coarsely punctured, the rest of the surface (the fifth ventral segment excepted) sparsely and minutely punctured, the ventral segments also longitudinally aciculate, the fifth thickly and rather coarsely punctured ; presternum horizontally produced behind, its posterior face vertical; legs moderately long", golden-cupreous, with greenish tints in certain lights. Length 15, breadth 4 | millim. (2 .) One example. Apparently closely allied to S. quadraticolle and S. puncticolle, Thorns., from the Gaboon, but not agreeing satisfactorily with the brief and very imperfect descriptions of either of these species. XANTHOTHOPEIA, Makl. XANTHOTHOPEIA ARUWIMENSIS, sp. n. (Plate LVI. figg. 7; 7 a, antenna.) Elongate, rather convex, subparallel; bronze-black, the head violaceous in front and greenish in the middle and at the sides anteriorly, the elytra greenish-aeneous and opaque, the head, prothorax, and scutellum shining. Head distinctly foveate in the middle between the eyes, finely and sparsely punctured, a longitudinal space down the middle smooth ; the eyes comparatively very large, not prominent; palpi bronze-black ; antennae dark violaceous, short, extending a little beyond the base of the prothorax, the joints from the fourth greatly dilated and flattened and becoming very much wider outwardly, 4-7 subtriangular, 6-10 strongly transverse, 9 and 10 each about twice as broad as long, 11 narrower and scarcely longer than 10 ; prothorax convex, transverse, the sides converging from the middle and slightly rounded anteriorly, feebly sinuate before the base, with the lateral carina very fine and extending only from the apex to about the middle and thence to the base replaced by a finely impressed line, the apex finely margined on either side, immarginate in the middle, the base sharply grooved within, the hind angles acute and outwardly directed, the anterior angles declivous, the disc very feebly transversely depressed on either side at the middle and with a deeper transverse impression lower down nearer the lateral margin, the surface finely, deeply, and closely punctured ; scutellum very finely and sparsely punctured ; elytra about one third wider than and fully four times as long as the prothorax, parallel to about the middle, crenate-striate from the base |
