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Show 628 MR. MARTIN JACOBY ON NEW [Nov. 6, blackish; elytra of silky, opaque appearance, with four flavous spots placed in a row near the suture and three others at the lateral margin, these spots show some fine punctuation; underside and legs black, the last three abdominal segments flavous. Hab. Rio Grande, Brazil. This is a curiously marked species and not difficult to recognize; the thorax has scarcely any flattened sides, but a narrow reflexed margin, and is entirely impunctate ; the short antenna?, silky elytra, and the spots will further assist in the recognition of the species. EPIONYCHIS SEXSIGNATUS (Clk. Catal.). (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 2.) Fulvous or piceous, the head, antennae, and the legs black; thorax flavous, impunctate; elytra greenish or violaceous black, each with a round spot at the base, a transverse band at the middle, another spot below the latter, and a short lateral stripe near the apex, as well as the lateral margin, flavous. Length 3 lines. Head impunctate, black, the clypeus flavous; antennae black, the lower two joints obscure piceous below, the third joint slightly shorter than the fourth; thorax rather convex, the sides rounded, with a broad flattened margin, the anterior angles thickened and produced forward, anterior and posterior margins nearly straight, the surface impunctate, flavous ; scutellum black ; elytra not perceptibly punctured, black or bluish black, a round spot near the scutellum, a similar one near the apex and close to the suture, a narrow oblique short stripe joining the similarly coloured lateral margin below the posterior spot, and a narrow transverse band at the middle flavous; legs black or piceous. Hab. Colombia. Closely allied to OS. 10-guttala, Fab., but the shape and the position of the elytral spots different, as well as the nearly smooth elytra. EPIONYCHIS AFRICANA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 12.) Head, the apical joints of the antennae, and the breast black; thorax testaceous, finely punctured; elytra testaceous, the suture, a spot at the apex, a spot at the base, and an elongate mark at the middle, black; legs fulvous, spotted with black. Length 2 lines. Of nearly parallel and narrow shape ; head broad, black, punctured near the eyes ; the antenna? comparatively widely distant, separated by a smooth space; palpi piceous, the apical joint acutely pointed, the penultimate one moderately incrassate ; antenna? short, the lower four joints testaceous, the others black, third joint distinctly longer than the fourth, terminal joints transversely widened; thorax three times broader than long, the sides strongly rounded, the anterior margin straight, the posterior one sinuate at the sides and at the middle, anterior angles oblique, posterior ones acute, the surface with a distinct sinuate transverse sulcus near the base, |
