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Show 48 MR. M A R T I N JACOBY O N N E W [May 12, another below the middle, and a third near the apex, bright flavous. Length 10 millim. Head impunctate, black, opaque and of silky appearance ; labrum flavous ; antennae extending to the base of the elytra, the lower joints flavous, the terminal three or four joints piceous, one-half longer than broad ; thorax strongly transverse, the sides straight, the anterior angles not produced, the surface sculptured like the head, with a few minute punctures; scutellum black, shining; elytra with extremely feeble rows of punctures, which are entirely obsolete below the middle, black, with three narrow transverse bright yellow bands, the first at the base and divided by a very narrow perpendicular black stripe at the shoulders, the second narrow band below the middle, slightly constricted near the sides, the third short and broader band of oblique direction near the apex, elytral epipleura? flavous ; underside and legs black, shining, the trochanters dark fulvous; metasternal epipleura? nearly impunctate. Hab. Espirito Santo, Brazil. Closely allied to >S'. transversofasciata Jac, but of entirely different sculpturing and with the elytral bands of different shape. STILODES FLAVILABRUM, sp. nov. Blackish blue, the labrum flavous ; head impunctate; thorax finely punctured, opaque; elytra strongly punctate-striate, flavous, a broad band at the base, another below the middle, not extending to the lateral margins, and the apex, more or less, bluish black. Length 10 millim. Of rather elongate shape, pointed at the apex, the head opaque, impunctate, greenish; the labrum flavous; antenna? rather slender, blackish, the lower three joints flavous below ; thorax about one-half broader than long, the sides straight, the surface opaque, of silky appearance, finely and subremotely punctured, greenish black; scutellum black, shining; elytra with regular and deep rows of punctures, the punctures much finer on the flavous portion and not always evenly placed, the sutural and lateral margins, two broad transverse bands before and below the middle, and the apex to a small extent, bluish-black ; underside and legs shining blue-black, the last abdominal segment with a small fulvous spot at each side ; the metasternum impunctate at the sides. Hab. Sao Paulo, Brazil. Like the preceding species closely allied to S. transversofasciata Jac, but with both elytral bands laterally interrupted, the thorax very finely and the elytra much more strongly punctured, and the general size much larger. STILODES FRUHSTORFERI, sp. nov. Black, the antenna? fulvous ; thorax sparingly punctured, with two flavous spots anteriorly ; elytra punctate-striate, a spot near |
