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was misidentified by Burmeister as minuta Fabr. Because of the 

 striking color variations, Newman also described two synonyms of 

 vidua, Popillia sticticollis and semirufa. It is probable that Anomala 

 nutans of Bates, which I have not examined, will enter the subgenus, 

 as well as crassesculpta Bates. The following species is altogether 

 distinct from vidua and does not seem to have been described 

 hitherto: 



Form oblong, rather depressed, highly polished, wholly black to entirely 

 red-brown, excepting two pronotal black spots; the sterna of the hind 

 body are, however, always black or blackish; legs pale in the pallid 

 examples, excepting more or less of the hind tibiae and the hind tarsi, 

 which are always black as in vidua; head very densely punctato- 

 rugulose throughout, except at base, where the punctures are small 

 and sparse; clypeus flat, trapezoidal, with broadly rounded angles 

 and moderately reflexed edges; eyes small, not prominent; antennal 

 club always black, shorter than the stem; prothorax about three- 

 fourths wider than long, trapezoidal, the sides straight, arcuately 

 bending at the middle; apex deeply sinuate, with sharp advanced 

 angles, the basal angles more than right but only with their apices 

 slightly blunt; surface moderately convex, very minutely and re- 

 motely punctulate, the punctures small but distinct near the sides; 

 scutellum minutely, remotely punctulate; elytra oblong, with parallel 

 and feebly arcuate sides, barely visibly longer than wide, rapidly 

 very obtusely rounded at apex; surface smooth, with scarcely at all 

 impressed series of very small punctures, the second interval wide, 

 irregularly and finely, subbiseriately punctulate along the middle, the 

 third smooth and feebly costuliform, the others all nearly flat; 

 lateral series more strongly punctate; pygidium with the short ar- 

 cuate lines very deep, sparse and punctiform; metasternum strongly, 

 rather loosely, the hind coxae coarsely and sparsely, punctate. Length 

 (9 ) 8.4-9.0 mm.; width 4.9-5.2 mm. Colombia. Three examples. 



*puncticeps n. sp. 



The larger claw of the anterior tarsi is not very stout and is 

 rather deeply cleft at tip, the lobes of equal length, the upper 

 barely thinner than the lower. I think that they are all females, 

 but the outer margin of the elytra is very thin, the marginal surface 

 less concave basally but without thickened beading. One of the 

 specimens is deep black throughout, one pale, excepting the black 

 post-sterna, hind tarsi, pygidium and pronotum except at the sides 

 and with black head and paler clypeus; the third is completely pale, 

 excepting the blackish post-sterna, black hind tarsi and two elongate 

 black pronotal spots. Of my two males of vidua, one is completely 

 deep black throughout, the other bright testaceous throughout 



