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Show 1889.] COLLECTED IN VENEZUELA. 267 DORYPHORA PUNCTATISSIMA, Stal. A single specimen from San Esteban. DORYPHORA PURA, Still. San Esteban and Colonia Tovar. DORYPHORA MACULATA, Oliv. San Esteban. DORYPHORA BLANDA, Stal. San Esteban. DORYPHORA SIMONI, n. sp. Obscure brownish aeneous; thorax strongly transverse, the sides with a few punctures only ; elytra flavous, very finely subgeminate, punctato-striate; the margins, a deeply dentate transverse band at the base (including a flavous spot), another band at the middle, and two elongate spots near the apex, piceous. Length 4h lines. Of very rounded, strongly convex, and posteriorly deflexed shape ; head, thorax, and the underside brownish, with greenish aeneous reflections, the head finely punctured ; the labrum fulvous ; antennae greenish black, the first joint fulvous, the third very elongate, the following very short, the terminal five joints gradually widened ; thorax at least three times broader than long, the sides very strongly rounded and widened before the middle, the surface entirely impunctate, with the exception of a few deep punctures at the sides, the latter also with a round fovea ; scutellum impunctate, brownish : elytra widened towards the middle, the anterior portion strongly convex, the posterior greatly and rather suddenly deflexed ; the disk very finely punctured, the punctures irregularly arranged here and there in double rows, flavous ; the bands not extending to the lateral but to the sutural margin, the basal one consisting of four connected elongate spots, joined at the middle to the base so as to enclose a round spot of the ground-colour near the scutellum ; the second band placed at the middle, also composed of four confluent spots, two other elongate spots near the apex, and a short streak attached to the suture near the apex, as well as all the margins narrowly, brownish piceous; the mesosternal process strong, straight, and moderately long. San Esteban ; a single specimen. DORYPHORA FASCIATA, Stal. A specimen from San Esteban. PROSICELA CHEVROLATII, Baly. San Esteban and Colonia Tovar. CALLIGRAPHA PERCHERONI, Stal. San Esteban and Colonia Tovar. |