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Show 268 MR. M. JACOBY O N COLEOPTERA [May 21, DESMOGRAMMA DECORATA, n. sp. Obscure fulvous; terminal joints of the antennae black ; thorax remotely punctured ; elytra regularly punctate-striate, flavous ; a sutural band, divided anteriorly, the posterior part of the lateral margin, and two elongate markings before and below the middle, connected by a narrow stripe, brownish aeneous. Length 3 lines. Head with some fine punctures, fulvous, slightly stained with aeneous ; antennae short, the five terminal joints widened, black, the others fulvous; thorax nearly three times as broad as long, the sides straight, the anterior and posterior margin nearly parallel; the disk rather strongly and irregularly punctured near the middle and at the sides, leaving a narrow central impunctate space, fulvous, with a slight metallic greenish tint; elytra flavous, with a narrow longitudinal sutural band of brownish-aeneous colour extending to the second row of punctures, and divided in front at each side of the suture into a short branch which does not extend to the base; a subquadrate large spot is placed directly below the base and connected at its inner margin by a narrow stripe with another subtriangular spot placed near the apex; the posterior portion of the lateral margin is likewise brownish; below obscure fulvous, the legs paler; claws simple; the prosternum longitudinally raised between the anterior coxae. San Esteban. A single specimen. The elytra have the third and fourth rows of punctures interrupted before the apex, the fifth, sixth, and seventh rows slightly longer; the spots are of a greenish-aeneous colour. PLAGIODERA ORNATA, n. sp. Pale fulvous ; the terminal joints of the antennae, the knees, and the tarsi black; thorax with a narrow central black line and two basal spots ; scutellum black ; elytra semiregularly punctured, testaceous, the suture and six spots on each elytron (1, 2, 2, 1) metallic green. Length 2-2£ lines. Head impunctate, depressed between the eyes ; antennae black, the basal five joints fulvous ; thorax three times broader than long, the sides straight at the base, slightly rounded in front; the disk impunctate, with a narrow central black line from the base to the apex, the basal margin with two black spots; elytra testaceous, the punctures placed in irregular rows, a broader space in front of the lateral margin depressed, darker fulvous, and bounded by a row of deeper punctures, the suture narrowly metallic green, this colour widened at the apex into a rounded spot ; six other green spots placed as follows-a small one on the humeral callus, two larger ones placed transversely before and two others below the middle, and a single spot at the apex ; below and the legs fulvous, the knees and tarsi black. San Esteban. Of this handsome species two specimens were obtained. |
