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Show 1 9 0 5 . ] ON NEW SPECIES OP PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 5 9 1 The following descriptions of two new species of Coleoptera of the genus Homophceta were inadvertently omitted from Mr. Martin Jacoby's paper supra page 399 :-- H omophgeta ARGUS, sp. n. (Plate XIV. fig. 3 .) Flavous, the antennae, knees, tibiae, and tarsi black; thorax with a transverse black band ; elytra not perceptibly punctured, each elytron with five round pale spots surrounded by a black ring. Length 6-7 millim. Yar. Thorax without the black band. Head impunctate, the middle portion and the clypeus yellowish white, the vertex and the labrum black; antennae extending beyond the base of the elytra, black, the joints rather short and robust, third and fourth equal. Thorax strongly transverse, the sides rounded, the anterior angles strongly thickened and produced, the surface impunctate, with a transverse narrow black band not extending to either margin. Scutellum black or piceous. Elytra tlavous, each elytron with five round pale spots, each spot surrounded by a black ring, and as follows-one at the base near the scutellum, one at the middle near the lateral margin, a third below the middle near the suture, and the others near the apex and joined together transversely ; apex of the femora, the tibiae and tarsi black. Hab. Sao Paolo, Brazil, also Bolivia. This species must not be confounded with H. annulata Illig., which it resembles somewhat in number and position of the elytral spots; but these in the present species are of different shape, round instead of transverse, always margined with black, and the subapical spots joined at their inner margins. In Gemminger's Catalogue the name of Aryus Chevr. i. litt. is given once as a synonym of //. annularis 111. and again as Oedionych. 10-guttata Fab., but the species has evidently never been described. II. i-notata Illig. is a variety of I I cequinootialis Fab. None of these species has a black banded thorax like the present typical form. H o m o p h c e t a a n g u s t o l i n e a t a , s p . n . (Plate XIY. f ig . 1 .) Below and the legs fulvous, above bright flavous, entirely impunctate, antennae dark fulvous, scutellum black; elytra with the extreme margins, a ring-shaped band at the sides and another transverse band near the apex, violaceous black or aeneous. Length 6±-7 millim. Head entirely flavous ; antennae robust, entirely dark fulvous. Thorax transverse, the anterior angles prominent and thickened. Elytra, shining; bright yellow, narrowly margined with purplish or violaceous, with a narrow transversely rounded similarly coloured band near the middle, nearly extending to the suture, P ro c . Z oo l . Soc.-1905, V o l . II. ^No. XL. 40 |