22G HYPERASPIS. 



this again joins the suture, forming a common lunate fascia 

 convex behind; external margin narrowly brown. L. 1^ lin. 

 Brazil (Deyrolle). 



Hyperaspis insignis, sp. n. 



Hemispherical, ochreous yellow, clearly punctulate, thorax 

 alutaceous ; thorax hardly truncate in front of the scutellum, the 

 cUsc broadly black, this colour extends over half the base, but 

 narrows towards the anterior margin which it just reaches ; elytra 

 with an obsolete brown spot on the callus, the suture rather 

 broadly black for £ its length, which colour then rapidly narrows 

 and is reduced to a narrow line at |. L. li lin. Brazil 

 (Deyrolle). 



Hyperaspis subsignata, sp. n. 



Hyperaspis subsignata, Chev. MSS. 



(J . Hemispherical, ochreous yellow clouded with reddish, 

 clearly shining, punctulate ; head yellow, thorax reddish, sides 

 broadly and anterior margin ochreous, the latter produced pos- 

 teriorly in the middle ; elytra ochreous ; the suture and a small 

 spot on the callus reddish. L. | — 1 lin. Mexico, Campeachy, 

 Texas (Deyrolle). 



$ . Head with the vertex reddish, thorax with the sides only 

 pale, size larger, punctuation fainter. 



Hyperaspis matronata. 



Cleothera matronata, Muls. Op. in. p. 71 (1853) T. 



Subovate, bright yellow above, rather faintly and sparsely 

 punctate ; head yellow with a brown spot on the front ; thorax 

 black, sides and anterior angles yellow ; elytra with a large 

 common spot, attenuate posteriorly, reaching almost from base 

 to apex, black ; and each with 2 other spots and the apical margin 

 narrowly black, 1 subtriangular (from the callus to the middle), 

 1 suborbicular, in the posterior half; pectus black, ventral segments, 

 reddish testaceous, brown in the middle. L. lj lin. Brazil 

 (Deyrolle). 



Hyperaspis Ecoffeti. 



Hyperaspis Ecoffeti, Mvh. Op. 111. p. 99 (1853) T. 



Hyperaspis qvadrina, Muls. Op. ill. p. 100 (1853) T. 



(J . Ovate, rather closely punctulate, yellow with black mark- 

 ings ; head yellow, thorax black, sides (not very broadly) and 

 anterior margin (narrowly) yellow ; elytra with a tolerably broad 



