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Show 1889.] COLLECTED IN VENEZUELA. 271 colour, the shape of the thorax, and the close and distinct elytral punctuation. HALTICA (GRAPTODERA) TRANSVERSICOLLIS, n. sp. Black; antennae and legs fulvous, above metallic green ; thorax transverse, the basal groove obsolete ; elytra very finely and closely punctured. Length 1 line. Head broader than long, very minutely granulate, impunctate, the frontal tubercles obsolete ; antennae robust, fulvous, half the length of the body, the second joint thickened, the following ones nearly of equal length but thinner ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides rounded, the angles obtuse, the surface scarcely perceptibly punctured, with a narrow transverse very obsolete groove near the base ; scutellum black ; elytra very finely and closely but more distinctly punctured than the thorax ; legs entirely fulvous. Colonia Tovar. This very small species may be known principally by the more than usual transversely-shaped thorax, in connexion with the fulvous antennae and legs and the obsolete transverse thoracic groove, which is almost invisible at the sides. On account of these characters, the Venezuelan species has scarcely the general appearance of a true Haltica or Graptodera; I see, however, no reason to separate it from that genus. HALTICA PLICATULA, Erichs. San Esteban. HALTICA AMETHYSTINA, Oliv. San Esteban and Colonia Tovar. LACTINA AGILIS, Harold. Colonia Tovar. LACTICA BIFASCIATA, Jacoby. San Esteban and Caracas. LACTICA BOGOTANA, Harold. Colonia Tovar. LACTICA CITRINA, Harold. San Esteban. LACTICA SCUTELLARIS, Oliv. San Esteban and Caracas. LACTICA DICHROA ?, Harold. San Esteban. DISONYCHA TRIFASCIATA, Clark. San Esteban. |