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Show 176 MR. M. JACOBY O N N E W [Mar. 2, is connected with a larger or smaller irregularly-shaped elongate apical spot near the suture, which in some specimens is almost obsolete ; besides these bands two small black spots are placed near the lateral margins, one at the shoulder and the other immediately below it. Upper surface of the femora and tibiae marked with a black line. This rather peculiarly-shaped species may be easily recognized by the short antennae, the apical joints of which are distinctly transverse. In m y collection. 20. (EDIONYCHIS DUODECIM-MACULATA, sp. nov. Subelongate-ovate. Dark brown below base of head and antenna?, black ; thorax bright fulvous ; elytra dark bluish black, each elytron with six pale yellow spots (1, 2, 2, 1). Length 3 lines. Hab. Capetillo, Guatemala. Head as long as broad, impunctate ; clypeus fulvous or testaceous ; antennae nearly as long as half the body, the middle joints slightly dilated, first joint robust, thick and short, second joint half the length, moniliform, third joint but little longer, the terminal joint the longest. Sides of thorax round, the anterior angles scarcely visibly produced, but acute; surface impunctate, rather convex. Elytra very distinctly and closely punctured, black with a bluish or violaceous tint, shining; two spots at the base, four transversely placed in the middle, four others below the middle, and two at the extreme apex light flavous. Underside and femora fulvous, tibiae piceous. In Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection and m y own. Collected by M r . Champion. 21. (EDIONYCHIS OBSCURIPENNIS, sp. nov. (Plate XVIII. fig. 6.) Broadly ovate, widened behind, convex. Black ; above obscure light brown; elytra distinctly punctate. Length 3^-4% lines. Hab. Chanchamayo, Peru. Head smooth, impunctate, longitudinally grooved ; encarpae and carina broad, the latter short; antennae extending to nearly half the length of the elytra; first joint robust, widened at the apex, third joint twice as long as the second, fourth the longest, the three basal joints shining, the rest pubescent, black. Thorax narrowly transverse, anterior and posterior margins straight, sides broadly flattened, the lateral margins much rounded towards the apex; anterior angles thickened, acute, but scarcely produced into a tooth; surface scarcely visibly punctate. Scutellum black. Elytra greatly widened and convex posteriorly, distinctly margined; the surface closely covered with distinct punctures, light brown, intermixed with lighter roundish spots, giving the surface a rather mottled appearance. Underside, with the exception of the thorax, and legs entirely black, shining and sparingly pubescent. Three specimens in m y collection. |