184 Mr. Baly on new Pliytopliagous Coleoptera. 



basi posita et vix jaone scutellum producta, lunulaque longi- 

 tudinali a basi fere ad medium extensa. basi cum vittiila connexa 

 nigris. Long. 6-|^ lin. 



Hab. Pebas, Upper Amazons. 



Head finely punctured ; antenna' slender, much less than 

 half the length of the body, piceous, two basal and two upper 

 joints, together with the mouth, piceo-fulvous. Thorax more 

 than twice as broad as long ; sides straight and parallel, rounded 

 and converging before the middle, anterior angles slightly pro- 

 duced, sub-acute ; upper surface finely punctured, extreme 

 lateral margin j^ale greenish yellow. Scutellum piceo-fulvous, 

 edged with uigro-2:)iceous. Elytra shghtly broader than the 

 thorax ; sides nearly parallel, broadly rounded at the apex ; 

 regularly punctate-striate, interspaces plane, very minutely 

 granulose, each elytron with a very short black sutural vitta, 

 commencing at the base and scarcely extending beyond the 

 scutellum, together with a longitudinal concolorous curved hue 

 joined at the base with the sutural stripe, and extending from 

 the middle of the basal margin for one-third the length of the 

 elytra, its concavity looking inwards ; inflexed limb together 

 with the extreme lateral border pale yellowish-green. 



Doryj)hora Jansoni, mihi. 



Oblongo-ovata, convexa, nigra, suljtus nitida, supra opaca, 

 thorace disco obscure rufo, ad latera aeneo-nigro ; elytris rufo- 

 testaceis, tenuiter bifariam punctatis ; s2jino valido. Long, 5 lin. 



Hab. Brazil, a single specimen formerly in the collection of 

 Mr. W. W. Saunders. 



Head obscure greenish-black, opacjue, marked on the vertex 

 with an indistinct bifid rufous spot ; antenna^ scarcely exceeding 

 half the length of the body. Thorax more than twice as broad 

 as long ; sides sub-parallel, rounded and converging in front, 

 anterior angles ; acute surface opaque, impunctate, obscure 

 rufous on the disc, obscure greenish-black on the sides ; extreme 

 lateral and apical margins nitidous. Elytra broader than the 

 thorax broadly rounded at the apex, very finely punctate- 

 striate, the stria3 arranged in double rows, irregular near tlie 

 outer margin. 



Stenispa respertina, mihi. 



Filiformis, sub-cylindrica, subtus cum autennis nigra, nitida, 

 supra coeruleo-metallica ; thorace longitudine vix latiori, tenuiter, 

 remote punctato ; elytris parallehs, prope apicem augustatis. 



