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Show 1878.] 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 . 147 pear-shaped patch extending to nearly the middle of the length of the elytra, fuscous brown ; a narrow light-flavous stripe accompanies the marginal and sutural one through its entire length. Entire underside and legs fuscous brown. Length 5 lines. This species was discovered by Mr. Rippon in Nicaragua. 8. DORYPHORA INSULARIS, sp. nov. Ovate, regularly convex, above greenish black, with a submarginal broad longitudinal vitta light testaceous ; head sparingly and finely punctate, labrum fulvous; antennae rather long, the last five joints flattened and broad, of a greenish black colour ; thorax of the same colour, throughout finely punctured with seven or eight deep punctures parallel with the extreme lateral margin; scutellum smooth, triangular ; elytra slightly wider at the base than the thorax, punctate- striate towards the suture, the rest of the surface confused-punctate of a more or less dark shining green colour, interrupted only by a broad longitudinal stripe of light testaceous colour commencing a little below the shoulder and extending not quite to the apex. This stripe runs parallel with the extreme lateral margin, but has the inner margin concave a little before the middle, but nearly straight thence to the apex. Underside and legs of a little darker green, shining. Length 6| lines. Hab. Peru. Collection Jacoby. Genus CALLIGRAPHA, Erichs. 9. C A L L I G R A P H A V I O L A C E O - M A C U L A T A , sp. nov. Oblong, convex ; head and legs ferruginous ; thorax and underside greenish, very shining; elytra light flavous, the suture, three transversely placed irregular spots at the posterior half, a median one at the lateral margin, and an oblique, large, bifurcate mark connected with the suture below the base, shining purplish; another short branch of the same colour is sent off from the suture below the middle of each elytron ; head very sparingly and minutely punctured, with a triangular-shaped mark at the back greenish aeneous; antennae gradually thickened towards the apex, entirely ferruginous ; thorax shining greenish, sides parallel at the base, rounded anteriorly, surface with a shallow fovea near each anterior margin, minutely and sparingly punctate on the disk, with a few deeper punctures near the base; scutellum triangular, the sides a little rounded, greenish black, smooth. Elytra wider at the base than the thorax, of a bright yellow hue, punctate-striate near the suture, the rest of the punctures only plainly visible within the darker markings, the suture broadly, the lateral margins narrowly, purplish ; the first is greatly widened in the middle, and connected with an obliquely placed two-branched mark below the base, and another, shorter streak with an upward direction below the middle; besides 10* |