334 COLEOPTERA. 



(light shiny green paper label). The amount of punctuation 

 and amount and degree of rufous coloring vary considerably, 

 and in some of the specimens the rufous vittse all fall short 

 of the apex, but all have the noticeable dilated area between 

 the third and fourth vittse, some examples have the front of 

 the head quite thickly punctate, the rear edge of the thorax 

 strongly punctate, and scattered strong punctures on the 

 various elytral intervals at the sides. 



Zyg'OgTainma liiieatipeniiis nov. sp. 



Head, thorax, body below and legs dark, dull, greenish bronze, an- 

 tennae the same, more or less rufous near the base, head with a few 

 fine punctures, thorax sparsely and very finely punctulate on the disk, 

 coarsely, but not densely on the sides, scutel shining black, elytra 

 straminous, the suture infuscate in the anterior half, each elytra with 

 nine rows (excluding the short sutural) of dark punctures impressed 

 in a dark line, joined in pairs 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, the second pair the short- 

 est, reaching the middle of the posterior half; none reach the base. 

 Length 6 mm. 



Three examples, Miranda (Andreer). 



The sides of the thorax are nearly straight behind, the an- 

 terior angles are moderately prolonged, and each side of the 

 disk shows an obsolete fovea. The third interval on the 

 elytra cuts off the next two pairs of striae, giving a regular 

 look to the striation ; should be placed near deleta Stal. 



My two examples of Zygogram7na airvato-lineata Jac. come 

 from British Guiana and differ from the described type by 

 having all of the three (in place of two) anterior short stripes 

 connected together behind by a transverse band which is at- 

 tached to the sutural vitta, also the exterior curved line at 

 the rear, lacks only about one-third of a complete circle ; the 

 general form is almost that of Elytrosphsera — the type is de- 

 scribed from Costa Rica. 



Among, the specimens labelled Costnogramma Ida Stal in 

 the first Jacoby collection I have detected a specimen of 

 Zygogramma decora Stal var b, unfortunately only labelled 

 Brazil; its purplish sericeous elytra with narrow flavous vitta 

 makes it a very handsome thing. It is the only example I 

 have seen and seems rare in collections. 



