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4. Alethaxius {Akctes) nigritarsis, n. .sp. 



Hab. Forests above the Bridge of Cliimbo (1-3000 feet). One example. 



Ovate, obsci;re piceous below ; terminal joints of antenna?, apex of tibite 

 and the tarsi, black ; above oljscui'e aaieous ; thorax very tinely punctured ; 

 elytra more strong!}' punctate-striate, the apex costate. 



Length, 4^ mm. 



Head strigose-punctate at the vertex, with an obsolete longitudinal central 

 groove, obsoletely transversely depressed l^etween the eyes and rugose-punctate 

 at the same place ; epistome more strongly punctured than the head ; laliruni 

 fulvous ; jaws l:>lack ; antenni?e more than half the length of the body, slender, 

 third joint double the length of the second, four or five basal joints fulvous, 

 the rest piceous ; thorax nearly three times as l)road as long, slightly wi<lened 

 at the middle and convex at the same place, all the angles acute and produced 

 in a pointed tooth ; lateral margins distinctly bisinuate ; surface extremely 

 tinely and closely punctured ; elytra scarcely wider at the base than the 

 thorax, with a transverse depression below the base, very regularly punctate- 

 striate, the punctures rather distantly placed, and getting gradually deeper 

 towards the sides ; interstices strongly costate near the apex, transversely 

 rugose below the shoulders, where a short longitudinal costa is also visible ; 

 legs fulvous, apex of the til>iie and the tarsi, black. A single apparently 

 female specimen. 



Principally separated from several closely allied species described liy M. 

 Lefevre, by the closely and finely punctured thorax, the bisinuate sides of 

 the latter and the general smaller size of the insect as well as its black tarsi. 



Fara. CHRYSOMELIN.^. 



5. Calligrcqjha nupta, Stal., Monogr. Chrysom., 1862, p. 267. 



Hah. Nanegal (3-4000 feet). One example. Has also been obtained in 

 Coloml)ia. 



6. C. Percheronii, Guer., Voy. Coquille ZooL, 1830, p. 146. Stal., Monogr., 



p. 272. 

 ■Hah. Riobamba (9000 feet). Hacienda of Guachala (9217 feet). Nine 

 examples. Has also lieen detained in Peru. 



7. L)ory])hora funehris, var. .Jacnby. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1880, p. 597. Tab. 



liv. Fig. 11. 

 Hah. Nanegal (3-4000 feet). Previously obtained by Mr. Buckley in 

 Ecuador. 



The specimen obtained by Mr. Whymper is no doubt but a variety of the 



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