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Show 792 ON N E W PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. [Dec. 16, Head impunctate, with a fovea between the eyes, black, very convex and large ; antennse two thirds the length of the body, second and third joints very short, light piceous, two basal joints and tbe ninth and tenth light flavous. Thorax a little broader than long, the sides narrowly margined, the angles not produced, surface smooth, slightly convex, impunctate, light flavous, shining. Scutellum black. Elytra very closely and distinctly punctate, the margins and apex, as well as the base, a narrow transverse band immediately before and a second behind the middle, piceous ; an oblique thin streak commencing at the humeral callus connects the basal with the first band ; all these bands are sometimes more or less interrupted. Legs and breast black, abdomen flavous. Genus CEROTOMA, Erichs. 37. C E R O T O M A ATRO-FASCIATA, sp. nov. Elongate. Black; thorax flavous, impunctate; elytra pale testaceous, a narrow transverse band at tbe base, dilated at the suture, and two small spots near the apex, black. Length 2-2| lines. Hab. Guatemala. Head black, shining, vertex distinctly but finely punctured, with a fovea in the middle ; epistome coarsely punctured, its anterior margin concave; antennse black or dark piceous, the base of the second and third joints paler, joints first and third long, of equal length, the rest short, pubescent. Thorax transversely quadrate, its sides narrowly margined; surface slightly convex, impunctate, flavous, this colour, however, often broken and obscure along the anterior and posterior margin. Scutellum black. Elytra gradually widened posteriorly, rather closely and distinctly punctate-striate, of a pale testaceous colour, with a more or less distinct longitudinal patch of fuscous on the disk below the middle; a narrow transverse black band, common to both elytra, is placed at the base, it commences at tbe shoulder, and is triangularly dilated below the scutellum at the sutural margin, where its point reaches to about one third of the length of the elytra; a small black spot is also placed near the apex of each elytron, at a little distance from the sutural angle. Underside black ; femora and the anterior tibiae flavous, each with a black dorsal streak ; rest of the tibiae and tarsi and the apex of the posterior femora black. Collected by Mr. O. Salvin. Genus .ZENIDEA, Baly. 38. ^ E N I D E A BIPARTITA, sp. nov. Elougate. Flavous; antennae with the second to the fifth joint black, the third excavated near the apex ; thorax transversely depressed. Elytra minutely punctured, the basal half black, the posterior one fulvous. Length 4-jf lines. Hab. Sumatra. |