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Group II. 

 Subgenus Graphalia nov. 



This subgenus of Ochrosidia includes as typical forms lunulata 

 andfulgurata of Burmeister and comata Bates, the first two of which 

 are represented in my collection. The complex nebulous design 

 on the pronotum is well developed in fulgurata but is not so evident 

 in my male example of lunulata, said to be from Sta. Catharina, 

 Brazil ; it is however a very variable feature. The following species is 

 allied to lunulata but is narrower and differs in the clypeus, clypeal 

 suture, in its smaller head, in sculpture and other characters: 



Form elongate-oval, strongly convex and shining, glabrous, pale brown- 

 ish-flavate, the abdomen a little darker, the pygidium clouded toward 

 the sides; head (c/ 1 ) much less than half as wide as the prothorax, 

 blackish, the punctures moderate, rather close-set but fine and sparse 

 basally; eyes separated by barely more than twice their own width; 

 clypeus obscure rufous, three-fifths wider than long, trapezoidal, 

 the sides feebly arcuate, becoming rather more oblique and straight 

 anteriorly, the apex arcuato-truncate, moderately reflexed, the angles 

 rounded; surface confluently but very shallowly punctate, gradually 

 smooth anteriorly, broadly impressed toward the sides, except near 

 the base; suture broadly impressed, entire, sinuate medially; an- 

 tennal club three-fourths as long as the stem; prothorax two-thirds 

 wider than long, the sides evenly rounded and gradually converging 

 from the broadly rounded basal to the very sharp and moderately 

 prominent apical angles; base feebly margined near the sides; surface 

 smooth, with a complex nubilate design, the punctures very fine, 

 rather sparse, not closer but larger laterad, wanting around the 

 small sublateral spot; scutellum very acutely pointed, finely, feebly, 

 sparsely punctate; elytra scarcely a third longer than wide, not" 

 evidently wider than the prothorax, broadly parabolic in apical 

 third; surface very shining, having two small brown spots near 

 basal third, the inner linear and oblique, and one, minute, brown 

 discal point behind the middle; punctures rather sparse, moderately 

 impressed, not very fine and in great part linearly arranged; pro- 

 pygidium minutely, closely punctate and with close-set, very small 

 hairs, the pygidium convex, more shining, finely scabriculate and 

 with very short sparser hairs; claw-joint of the anterior male tarsi 

 bent, as long as the preceding three; hind tarsi a fourth longer than 

 the tibiae. Length (cf) 12.5 mm.; width 6.5 mm. Honduras (San 

 Pedro Sula) *oblita n. sp. 



This species is allied to lunulata Burm., but differs in its less 

 broadly truncate, relatively less transverse clypeus, which is more 

 impressed laterally and with medially sinuate and not virtually 

 rectilinear suture, in not having the pronotal punctures closer 



