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Deccriptlons of some new species of PjiYiorilAGous Colkopteka ; 

 by Maktin Jacoby. 



Doryphora ainazona, n .s}). 



Very convex, fulvous ; head and thorax minutely punctured ; 

 elytra distinctly and closely puuctate-striate, greenish-black, a 

 round spt)t near the scutellum, two, placed ohliquely before the 

 middle and a large triangular patch near the apex, light fiavous. 

 Length 4 lines. 



Head extremely minutely punctured ; labrum testaceous ; 

 anteima3 very pale fulvous, the basal joints darker, terminal 

 joints much Hattened, broader than long, subtriaugular, the last 

 joint more elongate. Thorax four times as broad as long, of 

 nearly equal width, the sides much i-ounded near the apex, the 

 anterior angles produced into a very short point and furnished 

 with a few stiff hairs, surface very linely and closely punctured 

 throughout, the punctuation a little more distinct than that of 

 the head. Scutelhmi broadly triangular, shining impunctate. 

 Elytra regularly rounded and very convex, the sides angidatc 

 below the shoulder, closely and regularly punctate- striate, the 

 striae getting finer and more confused towards the apex, greenish 

 or brownish ])iceous, almost black, a large roiuid s]iot near the 

 scutellum, another somewhat larger at the shoidder, a third 

 below the middle near the suture and a lai'ge triangular patch at 

 the apex of each elytron, bj-ight fiavous ; none of these spots 

 extend quite to the lateral or sutural margins, Mesosternal 

 process moderately long and robust, 



Ilab, Amazon, rio IMaue (Dr, Staudinger), Collection Jacoby. 



At first sight, this species seems almost identical in colouration 

 with the well known D. acstiians, Linn., from which it differs 

 however in many points ; in the present species the thorax is 

 A'cry br(>ad and much more finely punctured, the fiavous spot 

 at the shoulder, instead of being thin and uarroAved towards the 



