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Show 196 MR. MARTIN JACOBY ON NEW SPECIES [Mar. 4, flavous, labrum and palpi black ; antennae rather slender, black, all the joints, with the exception of the second, nearly equal; thorax with the sides straight, the anterior angles broadly truncate and rather produced, the surface with the usual obsolete transverse sulcus near the base, impunctate, testaceous, the disc with a triangular black band or spot at the middle; scutellum black; elytra with the base narrowly black, this colour extending to the shoulders, the apex with another triangular black spot; below and the legs black, the base of all the femora flavous. Hab. Upper Amazons. NEPHRICA BRASILIENSIS, sp. n. (Plate XX. fig. 6.) Pale fulvous, the head, antennae, and the legs black; thorax yellowish white, impunctate, scutellum black; elytra scarcely perceptibly punctured, black, shining, the lateral margins and a large transverse patch at the middle yellowish white. Length 8 millim. Head black, with a single puncture near the eyes, the latter very large, kidney-shaped; clypeus flavous, triangularly raised, labrum and palpi black ; antennae rather short and robust, black, the third joint twice as long as the second and nearly equal to the fourth joint, intermediate joints slightly widened ; thorax nearly three times broader than long, slightly narrowed in front, the sides nearly straight, with rather broad, strongly reflexed lateral margins ; anterior angles obtusely thickened, the surface impunctate, very shining, nearly white, with a very obsolete sulcus near the base ; elytra convex, widened towards the middle, with narrow lateral margins, nearly impunctate, shining black, this colour interrupted at the middle by a large transverse yellowish patch, which does not quite extend to the suture, but is connected at the sides with the similarly coloured lateral margin; below pale fulvous, the legs black, the extreme base of the posterior femora fulvous. Hab. Rio Janeiro. A rather large and convex species, well distinguished by its coloration. NEPHRICA IMITANS, sp. n. Testaceous, the antennae, tibiae, and tarsi black ; thorax impunctate, obsoletely sulcate near the base; elytra impunctate, a broad sutural and discoidal band and a very narrow sublateral stripe black. Length 7 millim. Head impunctate, the frontal tubercles obsolete, the carina acutely raised, eyes broadly emarginate ; antennae black, the basal two joints testaceous below, the fourth joint longer than the third; thorax of usual transverse shape, the sides very feebly rounded at the middle, the anterior angles strongly obliquelv truncate, the posterior margin emarginate in front of the sen- |
