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Show 1889.] COLLECTED IN VENEZUELA. 269 HERMiEOPHAGA SIMONI, 11. Sp. Piceous ; the antennae (the terminal joints excepted), thorax, and legs flavous; elytra greenish aeneous, finely and semiregularly punctured. Length |-1 line. Head piceous, impunctate, the vertex with a metallic aeneous tint, the space between the eyes more or less flavous; the tubercles obsolete, very narrowly transverse; labrum black ; antennae closely approached, extending beyond the base of the elytra, flavous, the four terminal joints black, the basal joint narrowly elongate, second short and thickened, the following two joints scarcely longer but more elongate ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides straight, the anterior angles obliquely angulate, the posterior margin produced at the middle into a rounded lobe, the surface with a deep transverse groove near the base, slightly sinuate in shape and bounded laterally by a short longitudinal depression, beyond which the groove is extended at a little distance along the sides; the disk entirely impunctate, flavous; scutellum small, black; elytra convex, widened towards the middle, the base with a very shallow obsolete depression, metallic greenish or aeneous with a slight flavous tint, the punctuation fine and close, more distinct at the base than towards the apex and arranged in somewhat regular rows near the base ; legs flavous ; posterior femora strongly incrassate; tibiae armed with a very minute spine ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the following two joints together; claws appendiculate. Caracas. HERM^EOPHAGA SUBCOSTATA, n. sp. Metallic dark blue ; the three basal joints of the antennae flavous ; thorax transverse, entirely impunctate ; elytra strongly and deeply semipunctate-striate, the sides with one or two more or less distinct longitudinal costae. Length 1|-1*§ line. Head broad, impunctate; eyes very large ; the frontal elevations distinctly raised, rather short and trigonate, the carina very short and obscure; labrum piceous; palpi fulvous ; antennae half the length of the body, black, the lower three joints fulvous, the basal one stained with metallic blue above, the third joint quite as long as the fourth ; thorax strongly transverse, more than twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, the anterior angles oblique, slightly thickened ; the disk slightly swollen in front, with a very deep and sinuate transverse groove near the base, bounded at the sides by another perpendicular groove, beyond which the basal groove extends to a slighter degree upwards along the sides, the surface entirely impunctate; elytra convex, with strongly impressed and closely placed rows of punctures, the sides with a short acute ridge commencing at the shoulder and extending below the middle, this ridge much more strongly marked in the female. Caracas. I think that this species is distinct from its many closely allied |
