12 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Antennse more than half the length of the body, joints 2-3 short, the 

 latter slightly the longer, 4 equal to, or longer than the preceding two 

 united, according to sex, colour light piceous, growing darker and becom- 

 ing black on joints 7-8, eleventh white at base, black at tip, sometimes 

 the tenth is piceous at the upper half; thorax about as broad as long, 

 sides nearly parallel behind, smooth, convex, shining, piceous, a (e\v fine 

 punctures at the sides and obsolete traces of two fovese, elytra piceous, 

 shining, slightly dilated at the rear, finely and sparsely punctured, each 

 with four flavous or white spots, the first round sub-basal near the suture, 

 the second round sub-humeral near the margin, the third elongate sub- 

 median, transverse not attaining either suture or margin, the fourth round, 

 apical, equidistant from the suture and margin ; all below piceous, with 

 the femora and abdomen flavous. 



The species has been distributed with the manuscript name of 

 funerea Jac; three of my specimens were sent me as cotypes by Messrs. 

 Staudinger and Bang-Haas. I have preserved this and some following 

 names to save confusion. Sec. A, Baly. 



D. fusculus, nov. sp. 



Head black, antennae piceous, joints 1-3 flavous, then gradually 

 becoming piceous, 9-10 white ; thorax yellow, transverse, disk smooth, 

 convex, shining, faintly bifoveate, scutel black ; elytra plicate, black, 

 thickly and evenly punctate, the lateral margin narrowly (extreme apex 

 excepted), a round apical spot and an oblong submedian lateral spot 

 yellowish-white, also from the middle of the base of each elytron to a point 

 beyond the middle an ill-defined long yellowish-white mark not attaining 

 the suture, body beneath yellow, breast black, legs yellow, tibiae and tarsi 

 faintly piceous. 



Four examples, Peru, green label (Callanga ?). Length 6 mm. 



Apparently a variable species, the form above described is a c^ , of 

 which I have two examples practically alike, the other two aie $ 's, and 

 have the flavous colour of the elytra diff'ased over the whole surface, 

 leaving the suture narrowly dark and a humeral sublateral line of black, 

 extending around the curve of the convexity and showing the two yellow 

 spots above described, indicated by dark rings ; other forms doubtless 

 occur. The sides of the thorax are strongly sinuate and reflexed behind, 

 the elytra are moderately dilated behind, especially in the 9 ; the punctua- 

 tion is coarse, thick, and in some places confluent. I place it near 



