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Show 1880.] MR. M. JACOBY ON PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 595 28. COLASPOIDES ELONGATUS, sp. nov. Subelongate. Fulvous ; elytra black, very finely punctate-striate. Length 3f lines. Head with a short longitudinal fovea in the middle, impunctate ; upper part of the clypeus depressed, when seen in a certain light finely punctate; labrum subquadrate, mandibulse black; antennse nearly as long as half the body, entirely fulvous, third joint twice as long as the fourth. Thorax transversely convex, its sides much deflexed, surface impunctate, shining fulvous; scutellum subrotun-date, smooth, black. Elytra much longer than broad, parallel, shining black, regularly convex, surface very finely punctate, the punctures arranged in regular rows near the suture, more irregularly towards the sides. Underside and legs entirely fulvous. Mus. Godman and Salvin. Genus PLAGIODERA, Chevrol. 29. P L A G I O D E R A S E X M A C U L A T A , sp. nov. Subrotundate, convex. Fulvous; last six joints of the antennse and seven small spots on the thorax black ; elytra light fulvous, a pear-shaped sutural mark, a small spot near the apex, and two sub-triangular large patches on each elytron, one before, the other behind the middle, dark metallic blue. Length 4 lines. Head flat, with a few fine punctures ; labrum deeply emarginate ; antennse extending further than the base of the thorax, the first five joints fulvous, the rest black, compressed. Thorax narrowly transverse, the anterior margin deeply concave, the posterior one obsoletely bisinuate; surface finely punctate, the disk with seven small black spots, of which five are placed in a semicircular row near the base, and the other two in the centre above it. Scutellum sub-elongate, smooth, dark fulvous. Elytra slightly widened at the middle, from there to the apex regularly rounded, irregularly but distinctly and much more deeply punctured than the thorax, with the humeral callus prominent, and the lateral margin thickened anteriorly and posteriorly; the disk of each elytron is occupied by two triangular blue patches, of which the anterior one is the smallest; the sutural pear-shaped spot extends from the base to the middle ; the rest of the sutural margin is also of a piceous colour, and connected at the apex with another round blue spot. Underside and legs entirely fulvous. Mus. Godman and Salvin. Genus PROSICELA, Chevrol. 30. P R O S I C E L A FLAVIPENNIS, Erichs. 31. PROSICELA SPECTABILIS, Baly. 32. PROSICELA SIMPLICIPENNIS, sp. nov. Oblong-ovate. Black ; thorax bi foveolate, minutely punctate ; elytra irregularly but distinctly punctate, flavous. |