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Show 1880.] PHYTOPHAGOUS C O L E O P T E R A . 175 apex, black ; indexed limb of the elytra black ; the two anterior of legs of the same colour. Underside and posterior legs fulvous. Sufficiently distinguished from quinquevittata by the colour of the underside and the position of the lateral elytral stripe, which covers the lateral margin instead of running parallel to it, as in the former species. Collections of Godman and Salvin and m y own. 18. CEDIONYCHIS CRUCIGERA, sp. nov. (Plate XVIII. fig. 4.) Ovate, convex. Piceous below, above yellowish white; a broad transverse band across the middle, a narrow one near the apex and another at the extreme base of the elytra as well as the suture narrowly purplish metallic. Length 4 lines. Hab. Brazil. Head distinctly foveolate between the eyes, black ; inner orbit of the eyes fulvous; three basal and the apical joint of the antennae obscure fulvous. Anterior angles of thorax slightly produced into a short rounded tooth ; sides straight at the base, rounded towards the apex; surface impunctate. Scutellum black. Elytra convex, nearly parallel, closely and finely punctured; the median transverse band straight and broad, connected narrowly by the suture with another very narrow band near the apex, and a still narrower one at the extreme base, none of these bands touching the lateral margins. Underside and legs piceous, stained here and there with dark brown. A specimen which I take for a variety has the posterior band enlarged into a triangular patch, which occupies the entire apex, and extends upwards along the lateral margin. In m y collection. 19. (EDIONYCHIS VARIEGATA, sp. nov. (Plate XVIII. fig. 5.) CE. clavicornis, Clark, M S . Broadly ovate, convex. Fulvous or dark brown below ; above light fulvous or flavous ; four apical joints of the antennae, lateral margins and five spots of the thorax, and two or three broad, irregularly-shaped, transverse bauds of the elytra black. Length 3 - 4 lines. Hab. Brazil. Head minutely granulate; encarpae not distinct; carina triangular, widened anteriorly ; antennae short, the apical joints transverse, broader than long, fourth joint the longest. Thorax more than three times as broad as long; posterior margin "distinctly sinuate ; sides round, flattened, their anterior angles much thickened, but not produced ; surface minutely granulate, like the head, and covered with very small punctures, flavous; three small spots in the middle of the disk near the base, and two above them, as well as the extreme lateral margins, black. Scutellum flavous. Elytra widened in the middle, pointed at the apex; surface granulate and punctured, like the thorax; a broad, transverse, basal band, widened posteriorly at the suture, and having attached to it at each side a round spot, black ; another bidentate broad band occupies the middle, and pkoc ZOOL. Soc-1880, No. XII. 12 |
