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Show 1903.] SOUTH-AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 45 extreme margins pale; scutellum greenish brown; elytra very regularly punctate-striate, the punctures deep and closely placed, the interstices slightly convex, impunctate, olive-green, the suture piceous or dark fulvous, the ninth interstice obscure flavous, costate posteriorly ; below greenish, the tarsi testaceous more or less mesosternal process stout and straight. Hab. Espirito Santo, Brazil {Fruhstorfer). Much larger than D. dejeani Germ, or the allied species, and at once distinguished by the piceous sutural stripe. I know only a single specimen of this species, which is not an immaculate variety of D. piceo-macidata Jac, on account of the totally different elytral sculpture. DORYPHORA SEXPLAGIATA, Sp. nOV. Dark violaceous; antenna? black; thorax extremely finely and closely punctured, the angles fulvous ; elytra scarcely more strongly punctured, the punctures partly arranged in rows, the interstices finely aciculate, each elytron with three flavous spots, one at the base, one at the margin at the middle, and the third near the apex. Length 12 millim. Below black with a bluish gloss, above violaceous; head with a few fine punctures; antennae black, the terminal joints sub-quadrately widened, one-half longer than broad ; thorax rather flat, the sides straight, the anterior angles slightly tuberculiform, fulvous, the surface extremely finely and rather closely punctured ; scutellum black, impunctate; elytra with the greatest convexity at the base, deflexed at the posterior portion, very finely punctured in closely approached, irregular rows, violaceous, with a transverse spot near the scutellum, another of oblique shape at the middle of the lateral margins, and a third, subtriangular spot near the apex, bright flavous; mesosternal process long and straight. Hab. Peru. (Two specimens.) This species must not be confounded with D. sexmaculata Jac, also from Peru, in which the elytra are either greenish or brown and are strongly punctate ; the spots, although similarly placed, are also of different shape. DORYPHORA CYANEOFASCIATA, Sp. IIOV. Dark fulvous below; head and thorax fulvo-a?neous, minutely and closely punctured, opaque; elytra regularly and closely punctate- striate, testaceous, with a broad transverse oblique band below the base and a narrower band below the middle, as well as the suture, metallic blue, apical portion with minute bluish spots. Length 12 millim. Head minutely punctured, obscure aeneous; labrum and palpi fulvous; antenna? blackish, the lower three or four joints fulvous, terminal joints distinctly widened; thorax coloured like the head, twice as broad as long, the sides broadly flattened, rounded from the middle to the anterior angles, the latter mucronate, produced |
