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Show 612 MR. MARTIN JACOBY ON NEW [Nov. 6, latter impunctate; elytra very finely punctured, flavous, a triangular spot surrounding the scutellum, a small spot on the shoulder, and a narrow transverse band before the apex black. Length 3 lines. Head impunctate, black, the lower part flavous, frontal tubercles obliquely transverse, strongly raised, carina short and convex; antennae rather slender, black, the lower three joints obscure fulvous, third and fourth joints equal; thorax parallel, the anterior and posterior margins straight at the middle, the sides rounded, thickened as well as the anterior angles, which are not produced outwards, the surface impunctate, shining, fulvous, the base with an obsolete transverse sulcus; scutellum black; elytra very minutely punctured, with a narrow flattened margin, flavous, the base with a narrow transverse black band which widens at the suture into a triangular spot and terminates at the shoulders in a small spot, another narrow band is placed at a little distance from the apex, the sutural margin also is narrowly marked with black, neither of the transverse bands extends quite to the lateral margins ; underside and legs black. Hab. Brazil. Closely allied to (E. faceta, Har., but in that species the head is entirely black, the thorax is of entirely different shape and has a black spot, and the elytral bands are purplish violaceous. OZPIONYCHIS PILECTA (Chevr. in litt.). Fulvous ; antennae (the basal joints excepted) black ; head with one, thorax with two black spots, impunctate; elytra closely and strongly punctured, a broad transverse band at the base and the posterior half metallic blue, the lateral margin fulvous. Length 2\ lines. Head impunctate, fulvous, the vertex black, the space between the eyes depressed, with some punctures; antennae with the three lower joints fulvous, the others black, third and fourth joints equal; thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides straight at the base, strongly rounded before the middle but scarcely narrowed anteriorly, the anterior angles tuberculiform, the surface smooth, shining, fulvous, the disc with two black oblique spots ; scutellum black; elytra convex, with a narrow flattened margin, very closely and distinctly punctured, the punctures stronger anteriorly near the suture than posteriorly, the base slightly raised, the blue bands interrupted at the middle by a narrow fulvous band and not extending laterally to the margins, the posterior margin of the basal band sinuate, the anterior margin of the posterior band convex; underside and legs fulvous. Hab. Coustancia, Brazil (Gray). EPIONYCHIS QUAPRIPUSTULATA (Clk. CataL). (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 7.) Rather narrow and elongate, ferruginous; antenna? (the basal joints excepted) black ; thorax pale flavous, with a ferruginous spot |
