F. C. BOWDITCII 505 



to their colors, legs black, four anterior femora 3'ellow at base; 

 hincl legs yellow, femora with a black stripe on each side meeting 

 at apex, having the extreme upper edge yellow. 



Type. — Cachabe, Ecuador; low c; I, 1897, (itosenberg). 

 Length 6 mm. 



Head with usual frontal tubercles very obsolete, the surface back of the 

 eyes closely punctulate, the j-ellow color covers the neck and curves round 

 and touches the eyes; antennae approximate, joints one to two stout, three 

 to four elongate, flattened, equal, five to six equal, narrower and shorter, 

 seven to ten gradually shortened, filiform; thorax slightly constricted in front, 

 sides margined, sinuate, all the angles prominent, the usual depressions very 

 obsolete, so the surface is nearly equate, scutellum rufous; ehlra deeply punc- 

 tate, striate, finer at apex, body beneath with sides black, middle flavous, the 

 femora of the front leg is strongly curved and the tibiae are curved in and then 

 out, the middle legs are the same only the tibia less markedly curved, hind 

 femora beneath strongly excavate curved, with a well developed tubercle at 

 base (coxal?); claws appendieulate 



Resembles in general appearance some of the forms of C. 

 darki Jac. The type is unique. 



Cerichrestis jacobyi nov. sp. 



Head black ^^^th clypeus and frontal tubercles jtIIow, thorax 

 black with a wide yellow margin covered with golden pubescence, 

 elytra black with suture narrowly and margin ^\ddely, yellow 

 bordered and both covered with golden pubescence, legs yellow, 

 anterior tibiae and tarsi black. Apex of posterior femora with a 

 black spot. 



Type. — Peru. Square light green lal)cl. (Callanga?) Second 

 Jac. coll. "n.i.m." Length 5 mm. 



The color of the frontal tubercles makes them prominent, back of them the 

 head is thickly punctate, the antemiae reaching the middle of the elj'tra, the 

 joints subdilated; thorax quadrate, sides straight, margined, all the angles 

 prominent, the ex-treme sharp edge of the sides is dark, narrowly bordering the 

 golden side, scutellum black; elj'tra strongly punctate striate, the yellow 

 border is co-extensive with the thoracic yellow edge, cuts across the striae 

 and is continued to the apex where it joins the sutural line which is very 

 narrow, body beneath rufous, claws appendieulate. 



Type unique. 



Cerichrestis curvilinea nov. sp. 



Head black, with clypeus and front yellow, antennae black, 

 joints ten to eleven yellow, thorax black, sides broadly yellow, 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC, XLI. 



