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Show 518 MR. M . J A C O B Y O N N E W C O L E O P T E R A . [June 5, much stronger near the sides, entirely shining green, with a bronze reflection ; scutellum impunctate. Elytra very widened from behind the middle, everywhere irregularly aud very finely covered with punctures, the interstices having a scratched appearance, shining green, with a coppery reflection. Body below of the same colour; metasternal process conical, slightly curved. Length 5^-6 lines. Hab. Peru. Two specimens in m y collection. This species seems nearly to agree with Stal's description of his D. nitidissima, but differs in the irregular and fine punctuation of the elytra, and the smaller size as well as the colour of the antennas. 15. DORYPHORA BISBIMACULATA, sp. nov. Ovate, moderately convex; head greenish, distinctly punctured, labrum dark fulvous, mandibular black ; first four joints of the antennse testaceous, more or less stained with fuscous, the rest black, and gradually increasing in width. Thorax with the middle of the anterior margin straight, the posterior one rounded, and the sides almost crescent-shape, and deeply depressed before the lateral margins ; surface on the disk finely and not closely, sides strongly and deeply punctate; the entire disk is occupied by a flavous patch, leaving a narrow anterior and posterior margin, as well as the sides to a greater extent, greenish black. Elytra scarcely wider at the base than the thorax, parallel towards the middle, and slightly widened behind, the surface irregularly punctate-striate, the strise sometimes running in double rows, but near the sides the punctuation is altogether irregular and confused; the colour consists of the same greenish tint as the head, slightly shining ; and each elytron is marked with two large spots of a fulvous colour, of which one, of a semiquadrate form, is situated a little before the middle, without reaching either the lateral or the sutural margin; another spot, of a more triangular shape, is placed closer to the suture, near the apex, being accompanied in some specimens by two more minute spots near the lateral margin. Entire underside and legs black shining. ° ' Length 6 lines. Hab. Chontales, Nicaragua. Collected by Mr. Janson. Genus CALLIGRAPHA, Chevr. 16. C A L L I G R A P H A D I S T I N G U E N D A , sp. nov. Oblong-ovate. Head with a fine but distinct longitudinal middle hue, epistome separated by a triangular groove from the front strongly punctate, vertex very sparingly punctured, brown; labrum ..vous ; mandibular fuscous. Antennse with the first four mints in vous, the rest black; they reach to a little more than the base of the thorax and have the last five joints transversely subquadrate and the extremity acute. Thorax with the lateral m a r g i n ? X S parallel, a little wider at the base than at the apex, posterio maTgh |