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Show 1903.] SOUTH-AMERICAX COLEOPTERA. 31 DORYPHORA BREVIFASCIATA, Sp. 110V. Flavous, the antenna? black, the head with two greenish-black spots; thorax with a few fine spots, the base with a narrow transverse greenish band ; elytra widened posteriorly, geminate punctate-striate, a sutural band, narrowed posteriorly, the lateral margins, and a short transverse band below the middle greenish aeneous. Length 9 millim. Head with a few minute punctures, flavous, the vertex with two large subquadrate metallic green spots; antenna? extending beyond the base of the thorax, black, the terminal joints strongly widened, the basal joints flavous below; thorax of usual shape, the surface with a few fine punctures, flavous, the base with a narrow transverse, deeply concave band, not extending to the lateral margins, dark metallic green; scutellum metallic green; elytra wider at the base than the thorax, gradually widened posteriorly, strongly geminate punctate-striate at the inner disc, the sides irregularly punctured below the middle, flavous, the suture with a metallic green band which is suddenly narrowed below the middle, each elytron with a short transverse band at the latter place not extending to either margin and the lateral margins metallic green ; below and the legs flavous, the mesosternal process short. Hab. Brazil. (A single specimen.) In coloration this species comes near D. jucunda Stal, but in the latter the head and underside are metallic aeneous, and the elytral transverse band extends across the entire disc and is placed higher up. DORYPHORA SPH^RICA, Sp. nOV. Subglobular, testaceous, the antenna? and tarsi black ; thorax strongly punctured at the sides ; elytra strongly geminate punctate-striate near the suture, irregularly punctured at the sides. Length 9 millim. Head very closely and finely punctured, labrum testaceous, apex of mandibles black ; antenna? with the terminal joints strongly widened, black, the three basal joints flavous below; thorax somewhat narrowed anteriorly, the sides feebly rounded, the anterior angles distinct, but not pointed or produced, the disc convex, finely and sparingly punctured at the middle, strongly and closely semirugose punctate at the sides; scutellum smooth, shining ; elytra very convex, deeply punctured in double and treble rows at the inner disc, irregularly so at the sides ; underside and legs pale fulvous, the tarsi black, the mesosternal process very short. This is a species of almost subglobular shape, of which I unfortunately do not know the " habitat," and of which a single specimen is contained in m y collection; there will be no difficulty in recognising the species on account of the uniform coloration, the black antenna? and tarsi, in connection with the shape. |
