182 Mr. Baly on neiv Phytophagous Coleoptera. 



transversa male definita, ante apicem posita, nigris. Long. 4 lin 

 Hab. Ega, Upper Amazons. 



Head sparingly clothed with adpressed yellowish hairs, vertex 

 and upper part of front smooth and shining, nearly impunetate ; 

 face l^etween the eyes excavated on either side, the excavated 

 spaces divided by a distinct longitudinal ridge which runs 

 upwards fi-om the clypeus, surface of excavations closely punc- 

 tured, inner orbit ,of eye strigose-punctate ; clypeus transverse, 

 its upper border concave-emarginate on either side, the middle 

 produced, acute ; anterior margin obliquely truncate on either 

 side, slightly angulate-emarginate in the middle, surface rather 

 closely punctate ; jaws normal ; antennte longer than the head 

 and thorax, black, the under surface of the first, together with 

 the whole of the second and third joints piceous. Thorax twice 

 as broad as long ; sides slightly diverging and rounded at the 

 extreme base, thence obliquely converging to the apex, anterior 

 angles slightly produced laterally, acute ; upper surface finely 

 punctured, disc clothed -with very fine silky hairs, only visible 

 under a lens, sides densely covered with yelloAvish hairs. Elytra 

 bright testaceous, irregularly punctured, sparingly clothed with 

 short fulvous hairs ; a broad band at the base, another across the 

 middle and an ill defined transverse patch just before the apex 

 of each elytron, l)lack. 



Megalostoniis interrvj^to-fasciata, mihi. 



Oblonga, sub-cylindrica, supra tenuissime, subtus dense pubes- 

 cens, rufo-picea, pedibus palhde rufis, genubus, tarsis, scutello, 

 orbitis antice antennisque nigris, thorace tenuiter punctato ad 

 latera pube adpressa vestito, disco fere glabro, elytris rufo- 

 testaceis, sparse pubescentibua, sub-seriatim punctatis, basi, fascia 

 interrupta prope medium et utrisque macula sub-apicali ad 

 marginem adfixa nigris. Long. 4 lin. 



Mas. capite magno, pone oculos lobivto, thorace elytris equilato, 

 later ibus rectis. 

 Hab. Ega. 



Vertex nearly impunetate, minutely grauulose; front impressed 

 with a deep oblong fovea ; space between the eyes finely but not 

 very closely punctured, excavated on either side, the excavations 

 being divided by a central longitudinal ridge ; clypeus not 

 distinctly separated from the face, transverse, its anterior border 

 obliquely . truncate on either side, transversely truncate and 

 obsoletely emarginate in the middle, surface finely punctured, 

 irregularly excavated ; antennte equal in length to the head and 



