NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN EUMOLPID^. 217 



I only know the male of this species, several specimens of 

 which are contained in my collection. It is the only one known 

 to me in which the elytral epipleurae alone are fulvous and the 

 abdomen black, and will therefore not be difficult to distinguish. 

 Another again closely allied species from the same locality is 

 the following. 



Chalcophana Oberthuri, n. sp. 



? . Rufous ; the abdomen and the penultimate tarsal joint black ; 

 thorax finely and sparingly punctured ; elytra gi-eeuish-teneus, closely 

 punctate in single rows, the sides with three cosiec of variable length, 

 the lateral margin fulvous, apex dentate. Length 4 lines. 



Head rather closely punctured at the vertex only, rufous ; antennae 

 entirely fulvous, the lower six joints shining, the rest opaque ; thorax 

 twice as broad as long, the sides slightly rounded at the middle, the 

 anterior angles produced, the disc rather closely, distinctly but irregu- 

 larly punctured ; scutellum rufous ; elytra with a shallow depression 

 below the base, the apex of each produced into a short tooth, the 

 surface moderately strongly, closely, and regularly punctured in single 

 rows, the sides with three cost^, the inner one commencing at the 

 shoulder and extending obliquely downwards to the middle, the second 

 much shorter and ending in a line with the preceding one, the third 

 near the lateral margin and continued more or less distinctly towards 

 the apex, the latter portion again strongly raised, the surface of a 

 greeuish-asneus colour, the extreme lateral margin and the epipleurfe 

 rufous ; abdomen bluish black ; the rest of the under side and the legs 

 rufous ; the third joint of the tarsi and the claws blackish. 



Hab. — Bolivia. 



Of this species there are two females before me ; in one the 

 antennae are partly wanting, and I cannot say therefore if their 

 entirely fulvous colour is constant ; this is, however, the case in 

 regard to the colour of the tarsi in both specimens and that of 

 the abdomen. C. peruana, Har., is certainly very closely allied ; 

 but in my specimen of that species (which was obtained by the 

 same collector and at the same locality as the type) the elytra 

 are greenish blue, the antennse are black with the exception of 

 the lower three joints, and the entire tarsi are of the latter 

 colour, while the elytra are more finely punctured and without 

 the rufous margins or apical teeth. 



Chalcophana longicornis, n. sp. 



Rufous ; the antennae (the basal three and the apical two joints 

 excepted), the tibire, tarsi, and the abdomen black ; elytra dark 

 blue, geminate punctate-striate with slightly convex interstices, their 

 epipleurffi rufous. Length 3 lines. 



? . Head finely and closely punctured, with a short central groove ; 

 antennae as long as the body, black, the basal three and the apical two 

 joints fulvous ; thorax about one-half broader than long, the sides 

 strongly rounded, the anterior angles acutely produced in shape of a 



