Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London (125-126)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...narrowed in front of the middle; the surface is uneven, moderately and thickly punctured, with a shallow medial impression, and an obscure oblique impressed line on each side in front. The elytra have numerous small round, brassy, frosted spots in lines on the alternate interstices, similar to those in auropicta; and there is a large quadrangular frosted space on the margin, some distance from the shoulder, and a similar smaller one some way from the apex; the spaces are not round, as in auropicta, and, not being on a black ground, they do not show so distinctly as in auropicta; the apex is brown and fringed with yellow hair, the external angle distinctly dentiform. The prosternal process is purple in the middle, and has a medial impressed line, sparingly but strongly punctured. The abdomen has the middle of the intercoxal process and the irregular smooth spaces at the sides of the segments, purple; the apical segment is as if divided into three equal parts by two straight lines, which meet in the middle of the base of the segment, and diverge posteriorly; the middle portion is smooth, shining purple; the lateral portions are thickly punctured, brassy, and pubescent. The under margin of the elytra is dull aeneous. Length 11 lines. Hab.--Madagascar. Coccincllopsis auropicta, Lap. & Gory. This well-known species in its typical form is rather dull, dark brassy below, with strongly sculptured elytra, with their apex gently prolonged. C. quadrispilota, L. & G., I am unable to distinguish from it. Of both these, there are in this Museum specimens compared with the original types by Mr. Edw. Saunders. C. Schainherri, Chev., of which the type is in this Museum, is scarcely distinct; it has the same dark brassy coloration below, but the elytra are...