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Show 1880.] PHYTOPHAGOUS C O L E O P T E R A . 179 Collected by Mr. H. Belt and Mr, Rogers. Types in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection and m y own. 27. (EDIONYCHIS SALVINI, sp. nov. Broadly ovate. Dark brown below, above flavous testaceous ; antennae and base of head black; elytra closely and rather deeply punctate, flavous ; a subquadrate sutural spot surrounding the scutellum, a narrow streak at the shoulders, and two short transverse bands behind the middle bluish black. Length 4 lines. Hab. Zapote, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. Head with a few deep punctures at the vertex, the latter black ; lower part of face flavous, stained more or less with piceous ; antennae black, the first joint slender, stained with fulvous below. Thorax rather convex, the sides straight at the extreme base, from there to the apex rounded; the anterior angies much thickened and strongly produced outwards ; surface finely but distinctly punctured. Elytra convex, subparallel, strongly and closely punctured, flavous, spotted with black ; the sutural spot is broadest at the base, its sides deeply concave; the apex nearly straight; the shoulder-spots consist of a short narrow streak, while the transverse postmedian bands do not quite touch the sutural nor lateral margins, the apical spot being rather round. Entire underside and legs ferruginous. Var. The basal spot of broad and round shape, separated at the apex, the shoulder-spot wanting, and the transverse bands united into a large round spot. This variety I also possess from Costa Rica. Collected by Mr. Champion. Types in Messrs. Godman and Salvin's collection and my own. 28. (EDIONYCHIS STEINHEILI, sp. nov. (Plate XVIII. fig. 9.) Broadly ovate. Piceous, above fulvous ; elytra distinctly punctured, a broad transverse band at the base and a large patch below the middle dark violaceous blue. Length 5 lines. Hab. Columbia. Head very minutely punctured; encarpae and carina rather flattened and broad ; antennae long, filiform, third joint double the length of the second and half the length of the fourth joint, piceous. Thorax transversely convex, sides broadly flattened and slightly excavated ; lateral margins very round, narrowed from base to apex; posterior margin straight; anterior angles produced into rather large teeth of square shape; surface closely but scarcely more strongly punctured than the head. Scutellum fulvous. Elytra wider at the base than the thorax, much widened towards the middle, distinctly margined, closely and a little more strongly punctured than the head, the dark blue bands not toucbing the lateral margins. Underside and legs piceous, abdomen fulvous. At once distinguished from CE. bifasciata, Baly, by its large size, the dark underside and antennae. Two specimens in m y collection. |