218 HTPERASPIS. 



Hyperaspis tortuosa. 

 Cleothera tortuosa, Muls. Spec. p. 567. 20 (T). 

 Brazil (Buqiiet). 



Hyperaspis psylloboroides. 



Sub-hemispherical, whitish-yellow, with reddish-brown mark- 

 ings ; head pale ; thorax truncate before the scutellura, very 

 sparingly punctured, yellowish-white, with 7 brown marks, 

 (1 linear before the scutellum, 2 small external, 4 triangular, 

 arranged round the first one) ; elytra sparsely but distinctly 

 punctate, the external margin broadly whitish, the scutellum and 

 suture (narrowly) brown ; each with 4 red-brown vittae closely 

 approximated ; the 1st confused with the sutural stripe near the 

 base, the white line separating the 1st and 2nd suddenly dilated 

 at ^, the 4th emarginate externally. L. £ lin. N. Fribourg 

 (Deyrolle). 



Hyperaspis hybridula, sp. n. 



Closely resembling II. psylloboroides in size and coloration, and 

 differing principally by a somewhat closer punctuation and by the 

 pattern of the elytra. These are whitish, each with 7 marks and 

 the suture red-brown ; a transverse sub-basal spot extending 

 across the 2 first vittae; an oblique triangular spot on the callus 

 sloping towards the margin; three parallel vittse, the 1st inter- 

 rupted in the middle, and recurved outwards at the apex; the 

 2nd rounded at the apex, the 3rd shorter, acuminate ; a small 

 obtriangular dash at | in the external white margin. L. ^ lin. 

 N. Fribourg (Deyrolle). 



Hyperaspis Ceciliae, sp. n. 



Closely resembling II. fu scorn aculata, similarly punctured, 

 but paler ; elytra with 4 long linear brown marks in the anterior 

 part and 2 shorter triangular ones in the posterior a ; the 2 outer 

 linear marks connected on the callus, the inner very close to the 

 suture (which is very narrowly brown), a line from its apex 

 connects it with the second half of the suture where the brown 

 colour is a little broader, (but ends at f). B. H- lin. Brazil 

 (Saunders). 



Hyperaspis fuscomaculata, 



Cleothera fuscomaculat a , Muls. Spec. p. 569. 21 (T). 

 Brazil (Dejean, Paris). 



**Elytra convex, each with 4 sub-quadrate spots in 2 pairs, 



Hyperaspis Poortmanni. 



Cleothera Poortmarmi, MuU. Spec. p. 572. 22 (T). 



Brazil (Dejean, Buquet). Cayenne. 



Elytra very sparsely, thorax closely, punctate. 



