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prothorace duplo latiora et illo plus triplo longiora, humeris 

 rotundatis; pone basin sensim rotundato-ampliata, a medio 

 apicem versus angustata, apice conjunctim rotundata, superne 

 modice convexa, dorso regulariter, minus profunde punctato- 

 striata, disco exteriore confuse punctata, caeruleo-purpurea, 

 nitida, limbo exteriore, basi interiore excepta, sat late flavo- 

 fulvo ; margine sat late explanato, nonnihil deflexo, vage, minus 

 crebre, evidentius punctato. Corpus subtus flavo-fulvum, subti- 

 lissime punctulatum. Pedes flavo-fulvi, nitidi. 



*7. sellata: sub-triangularis, modice convexa, flavo-testacea, 

 nitida; prothorace parvo, lateribus rotundato, basi margini- 

 busque remote punctato; elytris subtiliter, regulariter pun- 

 ctato-striatis, cyaneis, basi utrinque macula magna, obliqua 

 margineque postico sat late inaequaliter flavescentibns. — 

 Long. 6^, lat. b\ millim. 



Spilophora sellata Bhn. Cat. of Colcopt. lus. IX. p. 18. 4. 

 Patria: Brasilia (Ega). 



Statura omnino Spil. pulchrae, nonnihil minor. Caput 

 dilute flavo-testaceum, nitidum, subtiliter, crebre punctulatum, 

 postice medio tenuiter canaliculatum. Oculi ovati, modice 

 convexi, nigri. Antennae elytris nonnihil breviores, tenues, 

 filiformes, flavo-testaceae. Prothorax parvus, latitudine dimidio 

 brevior, apice sub-truncatus, lateribus modice rotundato-am- 

 pliatus, postice utrinque leviter sinuatus, lobo medio lato, 

 parum producto, apice truncato, angulis rectis; superne pauUo 

 convexus, laevis, postice margineque punctis sub-remotis im- 

 pressus. Scutellum flavo-testaceum, nitidum, laeve. Elytra 

 prothorace duplo latiora et triplo longiora, antice singulatim 

 leviter sinuata, humeris antrorsum haud prominulis, late ro- 

 tundatis; pone basin subito ampliata, a medio oblique angu- 

 stata, apice conjunctim rotundata, superne modice convexa, 

 subtiliter, regulariter, minus crebre punctato-striata, interstitiis 

 planis, laevibus; caerulea, nitida, in angulo basali macula 

 magna obliqua, sub-triangulari margineque pone medium sat 

 late, inaequaliter flavo-testaceis, hoc modice, medio latius 

 explanato. Corpus subtus flavo-testaceum, nitidum, subtiliter, 

 crebre punctulatum. Pedes flavo-testacei. 



