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Type — Iphimeis fulvipes, Baly. 

 This genus includes those species of Colaspidce with a short broadly 

 ovate body, which have their antennae moderate in thickness, appen- 

 diculated claws, the sutural line between the prosternum and epimera 

 obsolete, the outer angle of the latter not produced to the anterior 

 angle of the thorax, and the prosternum itself truncate at its base. 



Iphimeisfulvipes. 



Ovata, valde convexa, cserulea, nitida, violaceo-micans, antennis, 

 palpis, pedibusque fulvis, illis extrorsum nigris. Long, 4^ lin. 



Hab. : Brazil. 



Head short, somewhat coarsely punctured, strigose-punctate 

 between the eyes, forehead broad, flat, five apical joints of antennas 

 moderately compressed, dilated, and black. Thorax transverse, dis- 

 tinctly narrower than the elytra, nearly twice broader than long, sides 

 rotundate-angustate from base to apex ; upper surface remotely 

 punctured on the disc, sides rather more closely punctured. Elytra 

 impressed transversely below the humeral callus, somewhat closely 

 punctured. 



Genus — Colaspoides, Laporte. 



Corpus oblongo-ovatum, aut ovatum, aut subrotundatura, valde 

 convexum, metallicum aut non metallicum ; cajjut breve, thoraci ad 

 dimidiam partem oculorum insertum, perpendiculare ; antennis fili- 

 formibus,apicem versus leviter incrassatis; ore plerumque prosterni apice 

 occulto ; mento quadrato-emarginato ; oculis vix prominentibus, intus 

 sinuatis; thorax transversus, basi elytrorum latitudini fere aequalis, lateri- 

 bus integris, rotundato-angustatis ; elytra thorace pauUo aut vix latiora, 

 confuse punctata ; pedes modice robusti ; femorihus muticis ; tibiis 

 posticis extus non canaliculatis ; unguictdis appendiculatis ; prosternum 

 planum, plerumque transversum, rarius latitudine longius, basi 

 truncatum vel concavum ; epimeris anticis trapeziformibus, ab apice 

 prosterni linea impressa suturali separatis ; mesosternum transversum 

 aut 8ub-quadratum, apice obtuse angulato. 



Type — Colaspoides limhata, Oliv. 

 The present genus differs from the preceding in the possession of 

 a sutural groove between the apex of the prosternum and its epimera. 



Fam. — Halticidae. 



Genus — Iphitrea. 

 Corpus elongatum ; caput cxsertum ; facie perpendicular!, inter 

 antennaruni insertionem elevata ; antennis filiformibus, mediocribus, ad 



