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On Phytophagous Coleoptera collected hij Mr. Thiiinin (it 

 Chdnclutinayo, Peru ; by Mautin Jacoby. 



Mr. Thamm, who recently visited London, collected during 

 ;i great niiml:)er of years in Peru ; the Phytophaga in his collec- 

 tion are mostly those Avhich have been already described by 

 Erichsou, in his Fauna Peruana, the new species are, with a 

 few exceptions, described in this paper, and I have added a few 

 species which I had previously obtained from Peru. 



CRIOCERID^E. 



Lema peruana, n. sp. 



Elongate, parallel, black ; thorax, margin of the elytra and 

 apex of abdomen flavous. Length o^ lines. 



Head black, impuuctate, shiuiug, not constricted behind the 

 eyes, the lateral grooves very deep ; antenna^, second joint short, 

 tliird twice the length, the rest elongate, black, pubescent, the 

 tirst joint swollen, entirely rufous. Thorax cjuadrate, deeply 

 constricted in the middle, surface smooth, with an obsolete 

 transverse depression, impunctate, shining, flavous. Elytra much 

 broader than the thorax, convex, punctate-striate, the punctures 

 almost disappearing towards the apex, Avith a short obsolete 

 transverse depression below the scutellum, where the pimctuation 

 is more deeply impressed ; the suture towards the apex and the 

 lateral mai'gins through their entire length distinctly raised and 

 thickened ; surface metallic aeneous, the margins and apex, the 

 latter more broadly, flavous. Underside and legs black, sides of 

 the abdominal segments and the last two entirely flavous or 

 ferruginous. 



Differs frcjm J^ema Jtavo-marginuta, Clark, by the colour of 

 the head, of the underside and legs. 



EUMOLPIDvE. 



Chalcoplacis rvjiventii's, Erich. 



The specimen befoi-c me differs from Erichson's dcsciiption 

 in having only the sides of the abdominal segments red, and iu 



