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Show 808 MR. M. JACOBY ON NEW COLEOPTERA. [Dec. 5, constricted before the middle, of a light fulvous colour, scarcely below the base, with only four or five partly interrupted punctured striae, of which the first, in shape of an impressed groove, runs parallel with the suture, while the last is only distinctly visible till about the middle of the elytra, the rest of the surface entirely impunctate, and the lateral margin strongly sulcate through its entire length; body beneath dark fuscous, the abdominal segments margined with lighter brown, legs black, the whole covered with golden pubescence. Length 4 lines. Hab. Australia. Although this species seems closely allied to C. obliterata, Baly, by the obliterated striae on the elytra, it differs in other particulars sufficiently to justify its classification as another species. C. obliterata is excavated between the eyes, while in this species this space is convex, and the antennae entirely black and shorter than half the body; the deep impressions near the lateral border in C. obliterata are here also entirely wanting. Two specimens are contained in m y collection. Genus LEMA. 2. LEMA PURPURASCENS, sp. nov. Elongate, subparallel, subdepressed, shining fulvous, with a purplish hue ; head with the front obliquely grooved on each side, covered ou the face with yellowish pubescence; labrum, apex of jaws, and eyes black ; antennae half the length of the body, with the second joint half the length of the third, the fourth scarcely longer than the preceding one, the rest elongate, cylindrical, black, with the exception of the first four joints, which are fulvous ; thorax with the sides deeply constricted in the middle, and a strongly marked transverse depression near the base, two shallow foveae are also visible on the disk near the lateral depression, surface shining, smooth, with a few puuctures near the anterior margin and two longitudinal lines of punctured striae in the middle ; elytra much wider than the thorax, transversely depressed below the shoulder, and constricted longitudiually from the shoulder at the lateral margin towards the middle, each elytron with 10 rows of strong punctures, the first very short; near the apex the punctuation is much deeper, and the intervals assume the form of raised costae ; underside and legs slightly lighter than the upperside, tarsi fuscous. Length 4| lines. Hab. Madagascar. Family MEGALOPODIN^E, Lac. Genus AGATHOMERUS, Lac. 3. AGATHOMERUS DUBIOSUS, sp. nov. Oblong, fulvous ferruginous above, black beneath. This species |