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Show 622 MR. MARTIN JACOBY ON NEW [N6v. 6, (E. jamaicensis is readily distinguished by its very transversely shaped thorax and the entirely impunctate and violaceous elytra. It is the only species known to m e from Jamaica. EPIONYCHIS PRINCEPS (Clk. Catal.). (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 4.) Widened posteriorly, black; thorax impunctate, black, the sides flavous ; elytra metallic blue, rugose and finely punctured, the apex flavous. Length 3 lines. Head with a few fine punctures, blackish, the eyes rather closely approached, frontal elevations oblique, clypeus flavous; antennae slender, extending beyond the middle of the elytra, black, the fourth joint slightly longer than the third, all the joints rather elongate and pubescent; thorax strongly narrowed in front, the sides moderately rounded, the anterior angles thickened but scarcely produced outwards, the disc impunctate, black, the lateral margins flavous, posterior margin perfectly straight; scutellum black ; elytra rugose and finely punctured, metallic blue, a triangular spot at the apex flavous, the outer edge of the epipleurae flavous, the inner portion black; underside and legs black. Hab. Brazil or Bogota. Clark gives Brazil as the habitat of this species; a specimen in m y collection has Bogota as the locality attached to it, but I am unable to say whence I obtained it. The species may be recognized by the rugose elytra and the colour of the thorax. (EPIONYCHIS PERUVIANA, n. sp. Flavous, the intermediate joints of the antennae black ; head and thorax impunctate ; elytra extremely finely punctured, bluish black, the apex flavous. Length 3 lines. Head flavous, impunctate, rather flattened, the frontal elevations feeble; the antennae not extending to the middle of the elytra, the lower four joints and the apical one flavous, the others black, third and fourth joints equal; thorax much narrowed at the middle, the sides strongly widened, their margins nearly straight, the anterior angles acutely produced but not dentiform, the surface impunctate, flavous; scutellum black ; elytra widened at the middle, the disc extremely finely and rather closely punctured, bluish black, the extreme apex'in shape of a narrow transverse band, flavous; elytral epipleurae, the underside, and legs flavous. Hab. Peru. Allied in coloration to (E. hogei, Jac, but the antennae are of different colour, the thorax differently shaped, and the elytra of a blackish blue. ffipioNYcnTs BESKII (Clk. Catal.). Black, the sides of the head and the thorax flavous; elytra black, finely punctured, the extreme lateral margin and a spot at the apex flavous. |
