16 I J lino, 



eight rows (besides a short sciitellar one) of fine punctures, obsolete at apex, and 

 having six stripes of dark metallic-green, alternating with six stripes of coppery-red ; 

 ordinarily, the 2nd and 6th green stripes are united near the apex, and within these 

 the 3rd and 5tli ; the 4th the shortest, and enclosed by the others ; there are, however, 

 individual variations from this, as might be expected, but in all examples one clearly 

 sees at least six more or less distinct strij)es of each colour ; the green stripes always 

 tone down into golden- or brassy-gi-ecn, at one or other of their margins ; intervals not 

 visibly punctured ; under-side, legs, and antennse deep shining black ; prosternum 

 compressed in front, convex from apex to base, the pi-ocess somewhat abruptly de- 

 clivous behind, and having, on its upper face, an impressed curved line ; mesostemum 

 plane, smooth, broadly — but not deeply — and angularly notched in front ; meta- 

 sternum transversely concave behind ; intercoxal process wide, broadly triangular, 

 and pointed at apex. Length, 41 — 4| lin. ; width of elytra, 2j — 2| lin. 



Hah. : Cbontales, Nicaragua ; four examples. 

 Apsida Belti, sp. n. 



Short-oval, black, sliining ; smaller than the preceding, the head and prothorax 

 deep shining black ; the elytra regularly convex, the rows of punctures rounder, 

 and more or less obsolete at the sides, as well as at apex ; the metallic-green and 

 coppery-red stripes — except the two sutural ones — are irregularly confluent, forming 

 a pattern of irregular, usually elongate, green spaces enclosed by coppery-red, or 

 coppery-red spaces enclosed by green ; the inner edge of the green — when it forms 

 the enclosing colour — deepens into cyaneous, whilst the outer edge pales into golden- 

 green ; the prosternum is less compressed in front, less convex, the process not de- 

 clivous behind, and is longitudinally channelled at each side ; the mesostemum is 

 narrower, more deeply notched in front, the upper face obliquely channelled at each 

 side ; the metasternum is a little convex ; the intercoxal process is more curvedly 

 and more gradually narrowed to the apex, which is narrowly rounded. 



Length, 3f lin ; width of elytra, 2i lin. 

 Hah. : Cbontales ; three examples. 



Apsida purpureomicaks, sp. n. 



Short-ovate ; head, prothorax, and scutellum deep black, very glossy ; elytra of 

 a beautiful metallic-purple, with dark green reflections ; head very finely, and not 

 closely, punctured, finely rugulose behind ; prothorax impunctate, more convex, and 

 more strongly and curvedly narrowed from the base than in those preceding ; elytra 

 regularly convex, each with eight rows of fine, elongate punctures, almost obsolete at 

 the sides and base, apex smooth ; intervals impunctate ; pro-, meso- and metasterna 

 as in A. Belti, but the longitudinal grooves on each side of the prosternal process 

 are much more feeble. Length, 3^ lin. ; width of elytra, 2 lin. 



Hah. : New Granada ; a single example. 

 Apsida ^exeomicans, sp. n. 



Ovate, metallic bronzed green with a castaneous tinge, elytra paler, less aeneous ; 

 head and prothorax minutely, and not closely, punctulate ; sides of prothorax feebly 

 rounded ; elytra moderately convex, the greatest convexity before the middle, very 

 gradually declivous behind, faintly seriate-punctate, the punctures almost obsolete 



