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Show 1890.] COLLECTED BY MR. BONNY. 645 Family LAGRIID^E. LAGRIA, Fabr. Examples of three species, one apparently L. obscura, Fabr., the others undeterminable. The specimens of these latter are insufficient for description, even if they should prove to belong to undescribed species. Family M E L O I D _ E. ELETICA, Lac. E L E T I C A BICOLOR, sp. n. (Plate LVI. fig. 8, 6*.) Moderately elongate, parallel; above and beneath and the legs and antennae black ; the elytra from the base to beyond the middle bright red, immaculate, for the rest black ; the head, the basal half of the prothorax, and the elytra almost glabrous, shining, the elytra duller towards the apex ; the anterior half of the prothorax, the scutellum, the entire under surface, the basal joint of the antennae, and the legs (the inner side of the femora excepted) densely clothed with long, fine, silky, appressed yellowish-grey pubescence. Head coarsely, irregularly, and somewhat closely punctured, the occiput a little smoother, longitudinally grooved down the middle, the groove much more deeply impressed between tbe eyes and on the forehead ; (antennae mutilated) ; prothorax broader than long, the sides almost parallel behind and obliquely converging in front, the base very sharply margined, the anterior half transversely depressed, densely and finely punctured, and pubescent, the posterior half glabrous and with only a iew very widely scattered punctures in the middle and at the sides, the disc sharply canaliculate (the median channel ending in a deep impression before the base and replaced on the densely punctured portion of the surface by a smooth central line) and with a large shallow depression on either side behind the middle ; scutellum densely punctured, the punctures confluent and much coarser in the middle; elytra nearly twice as wide as the prothorax, parallel, transversely and irregularly wrinkled, and with two distinct longitudinal ridges on the disc and a short sharp ridge near the suture at the base, the suture also raised towards the base, the ridges on the disc becoming sharper and more distinct towards the base and fainter towards the apex, the apices broadly rounded externally and truncate and a little retracted towards the sutural angle ; beneath very densely and finely, the legs densely and more roughly, punctured. Length 20|, breadth 8 millim. ( d1.) Allied to E. rufa (Fabr.), but differing from the corresponding sex of that variable species by the peculiar sculpture of the thorax and by the coarsely punctured upper portion of the head. Tbe densely punctured, pubescent, and depressed anterior portion of the thorax is very sharply delimitated from the smooth and glabrous posterior portion ; the entire under surface is very densely clothed with long, silky, appressed, yellowish-grey pubescence, the legs also being very |