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Show 52 MR. MARTIN JACOBY ON N E W [May 12, Var. Head and thorax fulvous. Length 7 millim. Head scarcely perceptibly punctured, with a slight greenish tint; antenna? black, the basal joint flavous below, terminal joints gradually widened, the last joint more elongate ; thorax with straight sides, the anterior angles pointed, the surface very finely and sparingly punctured ; scutellum blackish, elongate; elytra wider at the base than the thorax, finely and very regularly punctate-striate, flavous, the suture (to the extent of the third row) and the last marginal interstice black; underside and legs black, claw-joint simple, prosternum tuberculiform and raised anteriorly, metasternum also raised and truncate in front. Hab. Marcapata, Peru. The elytral punctures are extremely closely placed, and the sutural band is lather abruptly truncate immediately below the base and greatly narrowed round the scutellum, gradually so towards the apex ; the marginal stripe does not quite touch the sutural one at the apex, and extends to the base but not to the basal margin. Three specimens are contained in my collection, one of which has the head and thorax fulvous. DESMOGRAMMA INCLUSA, sp. nov. ^Eneous, the labium flavous, the antennae and tarsi dark fulvous ; thorax with the anterior margin and two oblique stripes flavous; elytra strongly punctured anteriorly, flavous, the base with a broad tranverse aeneous band, including a flavous spot. Length 12 millim. Head aeneous, with a few fine punctures; labrum flavous, palpi and antenna? fulvous, the latter with strongly-dilated terminal joints ; thorax with the lateral margins straight, the disc very sparingly punctured, greenish aeneous, this colour divided into three spots by two oblique narrow flavous stripes which join the similarly-coloured anterior margin, the darker portions are in the shape of a subquadrate spot at each side and a larger ^-shaped spot at the middle; elytra slightly wider at the base than the thorax, strongly punctate-striate at the base, more finely so and irregularly at the lower portion, flavous, the extreme sutural margins and a broad transverse band at the base, not extending to the lateral margins and including a flavous spot near the scu-tellum, greenish aeneous; elytral epipleura? flavous; underside aeneous, legs fulvous, prosternum truncate and raised anteriorly. Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil ? The thorax in colour and pattern agrees with that of D. partita St., but the sculpturing and markings of the elytra are different, the markings somewhat resembling those of B. fenestrate, St. DESMOGRAMMA DECEMPUSTULATA, sp. nov. Black, the antenna?, tibia?, and tarsi fulvous; head and thorax |