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Show 1903.] SOUTH-AMERICAX COLEOPTERA. 39 joints distinctly widened ; thorax strongly .transverse, the sides rather strongly rounded before the middle, the anterior angles pointed, the surface very finely and subremotely punctured, fulvous, the entire sides occupied by a large subquadrate metallic green patch ; scutellum fulvous; elytra with deep but remotely placed punctures arranged in double rows, the punctation much finer towards the apex, flavous or pale fulvous, with a broad transverse metallic green band at the base, not extending to either margin, and another triangular bi'oad spot below the middle; underside fulvous, stained with greenish aeneous, legs entirely fulvous, the mesosternal process rather short. Hab. Peru. The metallic green elytral patches are separated by the narrow fulvous margins and at the middle by a slightly broader division or fulvous band ; those of the thorax are divided at the middle by a narrow, anteriorly widened fulvous band, the sides are likewise more broadly fulvous. ' DORYPHORA HOXDURAEXSIS, Sp. nOV. Fulvous, the thorax with four green spots placed transversely, sparingly punctured; elytra strongly punctate-striate, a strongly curved transverse band at the base, another straight band below the middle, and a spot near the apex metallic green. Length 12 millim. Head with a few minute punctures, fulvous; antenna? extending to the base of the elytra, fulvous, the terminal joints thickened; thorax with the lateral margins strongly rounded anteriorly, the angles acute, the surface sparingly but strongly punctured, fulvous, with four black spots, placed transversely, two smaller ones at the sides round and two larger elongate ones at the middle; scutellum fulvous; elytra with rows of deep punctures which run in pairs at the sides but single at the inner disc, the ground-colour fulvous, at the base a strongly angulate band of green colour is placed in a slightly oblique direction and not extending to either margin, another band parallel to the first is situated below the middle and a transverse spot near the apex ; underside and legs fulvous, the mesosternal process very short. Hab. Honduras. (A single specimen.) This species resembles in its system of coloration and pattern D. viridifasciata Jac. (Biol. Centr.-Amer., Coleopt. vol. vi. pt. 1), but differs in the entirely fulvous head and in the shape of the first elytral band, which is almost semicrescentic, the other band is also much narrower, slightly angulate near the lateral margins, and both are of slightly oblique direction. DORYPHORA iENEOFASCIATA, Sp. nOV. Fulvous; head and thorax finely punctured, each with four green spots; elytra geminate punctate-striate, flavous, a broad transverse band near the base, curved upwards and including a flavous spot and a transverse spot below the middle, greenish aeneous. |