290 EUPALEA. 



seen, and I do not feel at all convinced that it is more than an 

 immature specimen of P. cyanea. Brazil (Reiche). 



Poria togata. 



Poria togata, Muls. Spec. p. 888. 7 (T). 

 Minus Geraes (Reiche). 



Poria Deyrollii, sp. n. 



Very like P. togata, but differently coloured ; head, thorax, 

 and body beneath black, elytra red ; tarsi ferruginous ; thorax 

 with the anterior angles narrowly red, with the disc finely and 

 sparsely punctate; elytra closely and coarsely punctate. L. 2 l 

 lin. Minas Geraes (Deyrolle). 



Poria Batesii, sp. n. 



Short, ovate, entirely red, thorax darker, tolerably sti'ongly 

 punctate ; front with an elevated longitudinal line in the middle ; 

 elytra unequally punctate, the large punctures lightly impressed, 

 towards the apex almost obsolete, body beneath red. L. 2| lin. 



Brazil, S. Paulo (Bates). 



Poria amazonica, sp. n. 



Short, oval, almost hemispheric, bright red, almost scarlet; 

 vertex slightly infuscate ; thorax bluish-black, with the anterior 

 angles red ; the sides suffused, sparingly and very finely punc- 

 tulate ; elytra scarlet, very shining, sparingly punctate, with a 

 large common rounded discoidal spot ; scutellum black, body be- 

 neath red, legs darker. L. 2 lin. S. Paulo (Bates). 



Poria circumflexa. 



Porta circumflexa, Muls. Spec. p. 889. 8. 

 Caracas (Salle), Venezuela (Fry). 



Eupalea. 



Muls. Spec. p. 889 {typ. formosa). 



This resembles Poria in having an unequal punctuation and 

 marginal thorax ; eyes coarsely granulated. E. Jbveiventris forms 

 a new genus near lihizcbius. Mexico and S. America. 



Eupalea formosa* 



Eujyalea formosa, Muls. Spec. p. 890. 1 (T). 

 Columbia (Buquet, Mniszech). 



Eupaba Mrriszecbii, sp. nov. 



Short, ovate, rather convex, black ; legs, antennae, parts of 

 the mouth, and venter orange ; thorax blue-green, closely punc- 



