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Show 568 MR. M. JACOBY ON NEW [NoV. 1, PHELOTICUS (?) .ENEICOLLIS, n. sp. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 4.) Below obscure aeneous, the abdomen fulvous, the head and thorax greenish aeneous, nearly impunctate, antennae fulvous; elytra flavous, strongly punctate-striate, the sutural and lateral margin and a discoidal longitudinal stripe, not extending to the apex, greenish aeneous. Length 11 line. Head finely and distantly punctured, metallic aeneous; eyes rather broadly emarginate, surrounded by a very narrow sulcus which extends downwards to the epistome, which is separated from the face by another transverse groove; clypeus broadly subquadrate, impunctate, labrum fulvous ; antennae filiform, extending to about half the length of the elytra, pale fulvous, the apex of the terminal joint black, the third joint distinctly shorter than the fourth, the terminal joints slightly thicker; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides rounded, narrowed towards the apex, narrowly margined, the anterior portion rather strongly deflexed, the surface very sparingly punctured, metallic greenish aeneous; scutellum triangular, fulvous, its apex aeneous; elytra subcylindrical, slightly broader at the base than the thorax, with a shallow depression below the base, fulvous, strongly punctate-striate, the punctures nearly disappearing at the apex, the sutural margin narrowly, the lateral one more broadly greenish aeneous ; a longitudinal stripe, angulate at its middle, extends from the middle of the base to some distance before the apex, the inner margin of this stripe is deeply concave at the angulate portion ; breast aeneous ; abdomen more or less fulvous; legs flavous, the femora with a very minute tooth, the claws appen-diculate, the inner division rather long and acute, the prosternum broadly subquadrate, the anterior thoracic episternum convex. This species, which I have only provisionally placed in Pheloticus, has the general appearance and shape of a species of Rhyparida and does not quite agree with any genus described under the group of Typophorince, to which it undoubtedly belongs; the supra-ocular sulcus is very narrow and placed close to the inner margin of the eyes, while the claws may almost be called bifid ; in one specimen, probably the female, the thorax is still broader and subangulate at the sides, and the femora and knees are stained with piceous. PHELOTICUS (?) BIFASCIATUS, n. sp. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 3.) Fulvous or obscure piceous, the head and thorax greenish, the latter remotely but strongly punctured ; elytra strongly punctate-striate, fulvous ; the suture narrowly, the lateral margin broadly, and a straight discoidal stripe abbreviated before the apex, metallic green. Length 1| line. Of the same shape as the preceding species and of similar structure; the antennae entirely pale fulvous, the thorax distinctly but not closely punctured on the disc ; the elytra without a basal depression, and with a broad and regular-shaped discoidal stripe, pointed at its |
