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Show 614 MR. MARTIN JACOBY ON N E W [Nov. 6, extending to the middle, and connected with a transverse narrow band below the middle, metallic violaceous. Length 3 | lines. Head black, impunctate, frontal elevations piceous; antennae not extending to the middle of the elytra, black, third and fourth joints equal; thorax about twice and a half broader than long, the sides strongly rounded and broadly flattened, the anterior angles produced into a short tooth, the surface impunctate, flavous; scutellum black; elytra slightly widened towards the middle, rather closely and strongly punctured, flavous, the basal margin, the suture, a transverse narrow band below the middle, and an equally narrow stripe near the lateral margin violaceous blue, all these stripes are connected with each other; underside and legs black. Hab. Brazil. Not unlike (E. crucifera in design and colour, but the transverse elytral stripe in that species is placed before, not below, the middle, and the entire lateral margin is of a blue colour. OZPIONYCHIS BEATULA, n. sp. (Clk. Catal.). Ovately rounded, short, piceous below; vertex of head black; thorax flavous, impunctate ; elytra nearly impunctate, flavous, a broad transverse band at the base and another equally broad one at the posterior half dark violaceous. Length 21 lines. Head impunctate, the vertex nearly black, lower part of the face flavous, latrum black; antennae with slender joints, black, the lower three flavous, third and fourth joints equal (last three joints wanting); thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides but moderately rounded in front, the anterior angles produced into an acute point or tooth, the surface impunctate, flavous ; scutellum black; elytra strongly widened at the middle, almost impunctate, the surface somewhat uneven, the anterior portion with a broad transverse violaceous band not extending to the lateral margins, its posterior edge rather rounded and not reaching quite to the middle of the elytra, a narrow flavous band separates it from another broad violaceous patch of similar shape not extending to the apex nor the sides; underside obscure piceous, posterior femora and the abdomen of mottled appearance, partly obscure fulvous. Hab. Amazons. The nearly impunctate elytra and the narrow flavous band dividing the two darker ones at the middle will help to distinguish this species from several nearly similarly coloured forms. OZPIONYCHIS QUAPRIPLAGIATA (Clk. Catal.). Black, the head greenish black at the vertex ; thorax flavous, uearly impunctate ; elytra finely punctured, flavous, with a transverse bluish band at the base extending nearly to the middle, and another band below the latter not extending to the apex nor the |