NEW SPECIES 



OF PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA FROM PARAG1 U 



BY MARTIN JACOBS 



The following apparently new species of Phytophaga were 

 obtained in Puerto 14 de Mayo in the province of Chaco Boreal 

 in Paraguay by Sig. G. Boggiani and send to me for examination 

 by D. r Gestro ; besides these new species , other well known 

 forms also found in other parts of South America are contained 

 in the collection. 



1. Scolochrus multicolor, sp. n. — </>. Black, the head and a 

 central band as well as the sides of the thorax whitish, elytra 

 strongly punctate-stria te, the suture and apex whitish, the disc 

 with an angulate black band, the shoulders with an elongate, 

 subquadrate fulvous spot; legs black and white, tarsi fulvous. 



9 . The head and the sides of the thorax fulvous, disc of the 

 latter black, with a central white band. 



Length 5 mill. 

 '. Head finely and sparingly punctured, white, the eyes 

 very targe, rather closely approached, deeply triangularly notched, 

 the space occupied by the emargination, black, antennae slender, 

 not extending beyond the middle of the elytra, black, the lower 

 four or five joints stained with navous below ; thorax twice as 

 broad as long, the sides rounded, the anterior and posterior 

 margin narrowly marginate, the disc very sparingly and finely 

 punctured, the sides more strongly so, the latter and a narrow 

 central longitudinal stripe, white, the rest of the surface occupied 

 by two broad black bands which are constricted anteriorly and 

 posteriorly, the middle portion of the base as well as the median 

 lobe remains of the white ground colour ; scutellum black, trun- 



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