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Show 1889.] COLLECTED IN VENEZUELA. 273 by the strongly punctured thorax in connexion with the raised basal portion of the elytra and the flavous antennae and legs. EPITRIX VENEZUELENSIS, n. sp. Elytra flavous; thorax transversely subquadrate, the basal sulcation deep and finely punctured; elytra with the basal portion slightly raised, distinctly punctate-striate, the punctures distinct to the apex. Length 1 line. Head impunctate, the frontal elevations rather obsolete, elongate ; antennae more than half the length of the body, entirely flavous, the terminal joints gradually thickened ; thorax about one half broader than long, the sides straight, slightly narrowed towards the base, the basal margin moderately produced at the middle ; the disk not visibly punctured, except below the basal sulcation, which latter runs parallel with the posterior margin ; elytra with the basal portion slightly raised, the punctures very distinct to the apex, each puncture surrounded by a piceous ring. Colonia Tovar ; two specimens. E. venezuelensis seems closely allied to E. flavicola, Har., from Colombia, but that species is described as having an entirely smooth thorax and the elytra without raised basal portion and their punctuation invisible below the middle; both species agree, however, in the entirely flavous colour. EPITRIX HIRTULA, Harold. EPITRIX OPACICOLLIS, Har. Both species from Colonia Tovar. EPITRIX FLAVEOLA, Har. From Valencia. HOMOPHYLA VARIABILIS, Jac. Caracas. HOMOPHYLA ADUSTA, Har. San Esteban and Colonia Tovar. SANGARIA HAROLDI, n. sp. Elongate, black; head, thorax, and legs fulvous ; thorax finely punctured; elytra metallic dark green, closely punctate-striate. Length 1| line. Head extremely minutely punctured, the frontal elevations united at the base; the carina short and acutely raised ; eyes large ; palpi piceous ; antennae two thirds the length of the body, black, the second joint short, the third distinctly longer ; thorax quite one half broader than long, the margins nearly straight, the angles thickened, the posterior ones oblique, the surface very minutely punctured, with a transverse narrow groove close to tiie posterior margin; scutellum black ; elytra narrowly elongate, the base distinctly raised, strongly and closely punctate-striate, the punctures gradually diminishing |
