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Show 266 MR. M. JACOBY ON COLEOPTERA [May 21, LEMA SAGITTIFERA, Lac From Corosal. LEMA ORBIGNYI, Lac, or L. DORSALIS, Lac. Specimens from Caracas may be referred to either of these species, one of which is probably a variety of the other. MEGASCELIS HERBACEA, Lac. San Esteban. MEGASCELIS VITTATA, Fabr. Corosal. MEGASCELIS SUTURALIS, Lac. San Esteban. MEGASCELIS AMABILIS, var., Lac. Colonia Tovar. CRYPTOCEPHALUS ATOMAROIDES, Suffr. Colonia Tovar. A single specimen. CRYPTOCEPHALUS OBFUSCATUS, Suffr. Colonia Tovar. A single specimen. CRYPTOCEPHALUS DECORUS, Suffr. A single specimen from Colonia Tovar. CRYPTOCEPHALUS ANCEPS, Suffr. La Guaira and Caracas. This species has been described by Suffrian as inhabiting Cuba as well as Caracas. The specimens obtained by M. Simon agree very nearly with the author's description, which gives the ground-colour of the elytra as brown, interrupted by three transverse yellow bands ; in the Venezuelan specimens the yellow colour predominates, and is divided by a narrow transverse brown band before and a similar band below the middle ; these bauds are irregularly indented and connected by the brown punctured striae, which separate the yellow ground-colour. I have not seen a typical specimen of C. anceps, but I have not much doubt about the present insects being identical with it, being probably subject to variation in regard to the yellow or brown colour. CRYPTOCEPHALUS AURATUS, Fabr. Seven specimens from Corosal and Colonia Tovar. MONACHUS PECCATOR, Suffr. Corosal and Colonia Tovar. PACHYBRACHYS RETICULATUS, Fabr. Caracas. A single specimen. |