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Show 1902.] OF AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 193 scutellum black; elytra very closely and strongly punctured, testaceous, with the basal and sutural margins, a humeral spot, and a narrow submarginal stripe metallic green; this latter stripe joins a transverse broad band before the apex, while a similarly coloured spot is placed at the middle of the disc on each elytron; below and the legs black, finely pubescent. Hab. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. NEPHRICA SANGUINOLENTA, sp. n. (Plate XX. fig. 10.) Below fuscous, above dark red; thorax obsoletely sulcate, impunctate ; elytra very minutely punctured, bright red, the disc with a large subquadrate yellowish patch. Length 8 millim. Head impunctate, with the exception of a single puncture near the eyes, the latter kidney-shaped, large; clypeus thickened, but rather broad between the antennae; the latter extending to the middle of the elytra, dark fulvous, the third joint twice as long as the second and as long as the fourth ; thorax rather more than twice as broad as long, the sides nearly straight, slightly obliquely narrowed towards the apex, with a distinct reflexed margin, anterior angles thickened, slightly produced outwards, the disc impunctate, very obsoletely sulcate near the base, dark reddish; elytra closely and extremely minutely punctured, of nearly blood-red colour, the latter interrupted at the middle by a large subquadrate yellowish patch, the anterior edge of which extends rather nearer towards the base than the posterior one towards the apex ; below and the legs dark fulvous. Hab. Espirito Santo, Brazil. A single specimen of this well-marked species is contained in m y collection. NEPHRICA FULVICORNIS, sp. n. Flavous, the antennae and the legs fulvous, the breast and the posterior femora black; head and thorax impunctate; elytra bluish black, a transverse band at the middle, the apex and the lateral margins flavous. Length 5 millim. Head impunctate, pale flavous; eyes large, sinuate, frontal tubercles distinct; clypeus slightly raised, triangular ; antennae robust, fulvous, the third joint distinctly shorter than the fourth ; thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides with a rather broad flattened margin, anterior angles obtusely thickened, the disc impunctate, yellowish white ; scutellum black; elytra perceptibly punctured on the pale portion only, bluish black, this colour interrupted by a transverse flavous band at the middle which does not quite extend to the suture, but is connected with the similarly coloured lateral margin, the apex likewise pale flavous ; below flavous, the sides of the breast and the posterior femora black. Hab. Amazonia. |
