Capt. P. P. King's South American Coleoptcra. 179 



sometimes rufous in the middle : elytra orange- coloured, with a large black spot on each 

 side close to the suture, and a smaller one near the costal margin ; beyond the middle 

 is a black irregular fascia formed by the union of 4 large spots: thighs rufous, except- 

 ing the apex. 

 Two specimens w T ere taken at Conception. 



*140. Tetraonyx cinctus, Curt. 

 Nitide niger, pubescens, punctulatus, elytris subscabris : sutura margincquc 



exteriore ocbraceis. 

 Length 4 lines, breadth l£. 



Deep shining black, covered with longish pubescence: head and thorax punctured, the 

 latter short and scarcely broader than the head, with a broad dorsal channel, forming 

 a large fovea near the base: elytra finely scabrose, dark fuscous, the suture bright 

 ochreous, connected with a broader line round the costa, the shoulder and a short lan- 

 ceolate spot from it of the same colour. 

 Having distributed this pretty insect upon the Continent with the tbom 

 name, I may be excused for introducing a description of it here. For nume- 

 rous specimens I am indebted to the late Mr. A. Mathews, who took them near 

 Lima. 



Family CEdemeridje. 



141. NACERDES ? ALTERNANS, Cl/r/. 



Pallide ochreus, oculis thoracis linea inconspicua elytrorumque strigis 2 longis 



pallide fuscis. 



Length 3f lines, breadth 1. 



Smooth, clothed with the finest depressed pubeseenee ■ antenn* and palpi of a verypak to- 

 cons-ochre colour; tips of maxilla, piceous ; eyes dark: ^^^££ 

 former with a puncture in the forehead, the iatter broader but not ^>*°£ 

 truncate, being narrowed towards the base, with an indist.net fuscous dors n , da* 

 est at the extremities and appearing .ike 2 dots in some hgh s, a -££-£ 



. side where the outiine is most prominent; scutel large : *£*^FZ>- 

 ,itt.e, broader than the thorax and thrice as ^^^*~Z££~ 

 coloured, with a broadish mouse-coloured stripe near the -"*-££ ^ 

 and a narrower one near the costal margin, curved ""££^3. -■"* 

 outer margin, and a stripe down the centre, of a «h» 



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