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Show 1880.] MR. M. J A C O B Y O N P H Y T O P H A G O U S C O L E O P T E R A . 599 the lateral margins testaceous, but this colour narrowed at the base. Scutellum impunctate. Elytra very convex towards their first half, distinctly widened behind the middle, subgeminate-punctate-striate near the suture; rest of the surface confusedly punctate, the interstices aciculate near the apex, of the same colour as the thorax; the lateral margins narrowly testaceous and impunctate. Underside and legs black, the latter rather slender; mesosternal process long and slightly curved. This species resembles much in colour D. flavomarginata, Jacoby, but is much larger, more convex, and more strongly punctured on the elytra : the yellow margin of the thorax also is much narrower ; and the colour of the legs is uniform, instead of being black and testaceous as in D. flavomarginata. 57. DORYPHORA CONNEXA, sp. nov. Broadly ovate. Greenish seneous ; thorax remotely punctate ; elytra distinctly geminate-punctate-striate; flavous, the suture, a transverse irregular-shaped band before the middle, common to both elytra, and four large spots behind the middle of each elytron metallic green. Length 6 lines. Head remotely and finely punctate, labrum testaceous. Antennse rather short, extending a little further than the base of the thorax; the last five joints transverse; four basal joints metallic green, the rest black. Thorax scarcely widened in the middle, sides nearly straight ; surface with rather deep but distant punctures, forming a closely punctate row near the lateral and posterior margin, greenish seneous, subopaque. Elytra wider at the base than the thorax, convex, regularly ovate-rotundate, deeply geminate-punctate-striate, the punctures less strongly impressed near the apex, and the striae somewhat irregular; light flavous; each elytron with four metallic green spots behind the middle, of which the anterior ones are much larger than the others, subquadrate, the posterior ones elongate and placed obliquely, neither of them touching the lateral or the sutural margin ; a broad transverse band extends also across the disk below the base connected with the suture, near which it is deeply dentate at its anterior margin. This species is not unlike D. funebris (supra, p. 597), but is much more rounded in shape, the punctured elytral striae are deeper and visible to tbe apex, and the shape of the spots also is different. 58. DORYPHORA SELECTA, Erichs. The Ecuador specimens vary somewhat from the type ; there are three small spots on the elytra-one at the base near the shoulder, one near the suture before, the other behind the middle; but I consider them to be but local varieties, as in all other respects they are similar to Erichson's species. |