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Show 1903.] SOUTn-AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 53 minutely punctured, elytra strongly punctate-striate, each with five flavous or fulvous round spots, 2, 2, 1. Length 10 millim. Head with a greenish tint, opaque, minutely punctured ; labrum and palpi fulvous; antenna? extending below the base of the elytra, fulvous, terminal joints gradually transversely widened; thorax about twice as broad as long, the sides straight, the surface coloured like the head, black, with a greenish tint, finely but not very closely punctured ; scutellum black ; elytra wider at the base than the thorax, black, rather strongly and regularly punctate-striate, the punctures arranged in double rows at the sides, each elytron with five flavous spots, of these, two are placed at the base (on the shoulder and near the scutellum), the outer one being larger than the other, two at the middle, placed transversely, and one at the apex; underside blackish, the femora near the base, the tibia? almost entirely, and the tarsi fulvous, the last abdominal segment with a fulvous spot at each side, the prosternum tubercu-lately truncate anteriorly. Hab. Espirito Santo, Brazil. I received a single specimen of this species from Mr. Fruhstorfer. COSMOGRAMMA UNICINCTA, Sp. nOV. Black, with a slight bluish gloss; head and thorax finely and sparingly punctured; elytra regularly punctate-striate, black, with a violaceous tint, the basal margin and a sublateral narrow band bright flavous. Length 6 millim. Head finely and rather closely punctured ; antenna? black, the terminal joints thickened but rather long, the lower two joints flavous below; thorax with the anterior angles produced into a small tooth, the sides straight, the surface finely and sparingly punctured, the punctures not stronger at the sides; scutellum black; elytra with a slight purplish or violaceous tint, finely and regularly punctate-striate, the tenth interstice and the basal margin bright flavous, the last interstice and the epipleura? of the ground-colour; claw-joint unarmed, the metasternum truncately produced. Hab. Peru. The single flavous lateral stripe separates this species from most others placed in this genus, from which it further differs in the non-dentate claws; C. patricia Erichs. is, however, of similar coloration, but dull black, opaque, and with scarcely perceptible elytral punctation. COSMOGRAMMA PERUANA, Sp. UOV. Black, the thorax closely and strongly punctured ; elytra opaque, finely punctate-striate, the third and the last interstice, as well as the basal margin, golden yellow, the marginal band with a row of dark punctures. |
