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Show 40 . MR. MARTIN JACOBV ON NEW [May 12, Length 10 millim. Head finely and sparingly punctured, fulvous, with four small green spots placed quadrately; antenna? black, lower two joints flavous below, the terminal joints gradually widened ; thorax of usual shape, the anterior angles not produced, the surface finely and remotely punctured, fulvous, the anterior and posterior margins and four spots placed transversely on the disc, metallic green; scutellum dark fulvous ; elytra geminate punctate-striate, flavous, the lateral margins, the suture, a curved transverse band at the base, greatly dilated at the suture and curved upwards at the shoulders, and an oblique spot below the middle greenish aeneous; underside and legs fulvous, mesosternal process short and straight. Hab. Colombia. Somewhat similarly coloured as D. gerstaeckeri Stal, but with the head and the thorax fulvous and spotted with green. DORYPHORA TERMIXATA, sp. UOV. Black, thorax with a few fine punctures ; elytra finely punctate-striate, the interstices slightly convex, black, the apex flavous with a small black spot. Length 12 millim. Head impunctate; antenna? black, the terminal joints rather strongly widened ; sides of the thorax slightly constricted at the base, feebly rounded, the anterior angles produced outwards into a small point; elytra with distantly placed irregular rows of fine punctures, black, the apex in shape of a broad triangular patch, flavous, including a small black spot on each elytron ; legs and underside black, mesosternal process long and curved. Hab. Costa Rica. (A single specimen.) Of entirely black coloration with the exception of the flavous apex of the elytra. DORYPHORA BAHIAEXSIS, Sp. nov. Pale fulvous, the antennae (the basal four joints excepted) black ; thorax finely and sparingly punctured ; elytral punctation arranged in irregular double rows, fine, the pnnctures piceous, surrounding small palish smooth spots. Length 12 millim. Head impunctate, fulvous; antenna? rather short, black, the basal four joints fulvous, the terminal joints very broadly flattened • thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides straight the anterior angles acute but not pointed or produced, anterior margin deeply concave behind the eyes, the disc finely and sparingly punctured, not more closely but a little more strongly so at the sides ; scutellum fulvous ; elytra with their greatest elevation at the middle, rather finely punctured, the punctures near the suture here and there arranged in irregular double rows which are more plainly marked near the apex, the interstices with numerous |