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patches (ante-median and subapical) on each elytron. This Centml- 

 American insect was recorded by me from the same country in 1889. 



2. — -Colpartlirum hicinctum, n. s^). 



(Plate II, fig. 1, 2 .) 



2 . Elongate, shining ; testaceous, the eyes and two transverse fasciae on 

 the disc of each elytron (one before, the other beyond the middle, tlie anterior 

 one reaching the sutnre, and extending down the latter for some distance) 

 nigro-piceous or black ; the alternate elytral intei'stices and the head with a 

 few, long, erect pallid hairs. Head rather small, smooth, with a deep, trans- 

 verse, bifoveate inter-ocular depression, the eyes distant and small as seen from 

 tabove ; antennae somewhat slender, comparatively short, joint 11 barely twice 

 the length of 10. Prothorax narrow, as wide as thg head, slightly longer than 

 broad, cordate, dilated at the base, strongly constricted posteriorly, smooth, the 

 transverse groove very deep. Elytra rather broad, moderately elongate, gradu- 

 ally widened to the middle, and there fully three times the breadth of the 

 prothorax; conspicuously striato-punctate, the punctures becoming very fine 

 and scattered towards the apex and there placed in fine striae, the interstices 

 broad, flat, the setigerous impressions on 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 small and scattered. 

 Femora moderately clavate. 



Length nearly 7, breadth 2| mm. 



Hab. : Peeu, Chanchamayo {ex coll. F. Bates). 



One specimen. Near the Brazilian C. fasciatum, differing from it 

 in the more deeply constricted prothorax, the fewer and finer ^'riate 

 puiictm*es on the elytra (these becoming almost obsolete towards the 

 apex), the broader, flat interstices, and the elytra themselves relatively 

 wider. The markings are doubtless subject to variation. 



3. — Colpariliriim fasciatum. 

 (Plate II, figs. 2, d ; 2 a, h, sixth ventral segment and penis-sheath.) 

 Statirafasciata Miikl., Act. Soc. Fenn. x, p. 644 (1875). 

 Colparthrum hifoveifrons Pic, L'Echange, xxviii, p. 100 (1913). 

 Yars. Colpartliriun rnficeps and var. suhohliteratum Pic, loc. cit. 



J. Antennal joint 11 about as long as 9 and 10 united, a little shorter 

 in 2 ; sixth ventral segment developed into a pair of short, stout, curved, con- 

 cave forceps, which are pointed at the apex (fig. 2 a) ; penis-sheath long, 

 narrowed to the apex, the apical portion divided down the middle (figs. 2 a, h). 



Length 6^-7^ , breadth 2-2| mm. ( c? ? •) 



Hah. : Beazil, Boa Sorta and Santa Rita (Sahlhe7y : types of 

 S. fasciata), Kio de Janeiro {Fry), San Antonio de Barra {Gounelle : 

 types of C. r^ificeps and var. suhohliteratum), Alto da Serra in Sao 

 Paulo {G. E. Bryant: C. rnficeps dot. Pic). 



