204 Mr. J. S. Baly on new species of Phytophagous Beetles. 



nigro-hirsutis, linea submarginali vittaque obscure fulvis. — Long. 

 4-5 lin. 



Head distinctly punctured; front longitudinally impressed 

 between the eyes, the latter prominent; black, covered with 

 concolorous hairs ; the base of the jaws and the palpi yellow. 

 Thorax cylindrical, constricted at the base and apex, posterior 

 angles produced into an obtuse tooth ; surface shining, distinctly 

 but subremotely punctured, flavo -fulvous, a spot in the middle 

 of the anterior border black. Scutellum shining yellow. Elytra 

 rather broader than the thorax ; sides nearly parallel, scarcely 

 narrowed behind ; apex acutely rounded, dehiscent at the suture ; 

 above convex, flattened and slightly excavated along the suture ; 

 placed somewhat obliquely near the apex of this latter is a short 

 longitudinal fossa ; surface closely and distinctly punctured ; 

 grey, covered with adpressed black pubescence, a narrow sub- 

 marginal line terminating near the middle, and a broad obscure 

 vitta on the inner disk, abbreviated towards the apex, obscure 

 fulvous. Beneath pale fulvous, sparingly covered with pubes- 

 cence of the same colour ; posterior pair of tibise and tarsi black, 

 covered with concolorous hairs ; anal segment of abdomen also 

 black ; posterior pair of femora moderately incrassate ; tibiae of 

 the same pair incrassate, suddenly thickened beyond their mid- 

 dle ; apical half of four anterior tibiae, together with the tarsi, 

 more or less stained with piceous. [Male.) 



{Female.) Posterior femora slightly incrassate; tibise slightly 

 curved, gradually increasing in thickness towards their apex. 



Hab. Ega and San Paulo, Upper Amazons. 



Temnaspis speciosus. PI. V. fig. 4. 



T. elongatus, parallelus, niger, nitidus ; femoribus piceis ; abdominis 

 basi apiceque, metasterni tuberculis, thoracis lateribus elytrisque 

 flavis, his macula humerali, fascia transversa centrali maculaque 

 subapicali nigris ; femoribus posticis modice incrassatis, subtus 

 bispinosis. (Mas.) — Long. 5-6 lin. 



(Foem.) Femoribus posticis vix incrassatis, unispinosis ; abdo- 

 mine flavo, medio plaga transversa nigra. 



Elongate, parallel, convex, subdepressed along the suture ; 

 shining black, sparingly covered with short hairs, the pubes- 

 cence on the under surface of the body longer and more distinct ; 

 abdomen (a large central patch excepted), the metasternal tu- 

 bercles, the sides of the thorax, together with the elytra, yellow, 

 these latter with a humeral spot, a transverse band across the 

 middle, and a subtriangular patch behind, black. Head shining, 

 distantly punctured on the vertex, transversely grooved between 

 the eyes ; anterior margin of clypeus fulvous ; edge of labrum 

 clothed with fulvous hairs ; antennae rather longer than the head 



