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tooth, the surface very finely and rather closely punctured ; scutellum 

 dark fulvous ; elytra dark blue, not visibly depressed below the base, 

 strongly punctured in double rows, the interstices in shape of slightly 

 raised longitudinal narrow spaces, the epipleurse and the extreme 

 lateral margin at the basal and apical portion fulvous ; the breast and 

 the femora of the latter colour, the posterior femora with a piceous 

 spot at the posterior portion ; the greater part of the tibiae, the tarsi, 

 and the abdomen black. 



Ilah. — Amazons. 



This is another species having the abdomen black, but differs 

 in the long antennse and their fulvous apical joints, and in the 

 colour and strong punctuation, arranged in pairs, of the elytra. 

 I possess a single male specimen. 



ChALCOPHANA (?) DUODECIMPUNCTATA, n. Sp. 



Fulvous ; the intermediate joints of the autennte black ; thorax 

 very finely punctured ; elytra similarly punctate, each with six black 

 spots (2. 2. 2.). S . The intermediate tibi® deeply emarginate at 

 the apex, the latter with a spine. Length 3 lines. 



Head, with the exception of a few fine punctures between the eyes, 

 entirely impunctate, the middle with a fovea ; antennte slender, ex- 

 tending to the middle of the elytra, fulvous, the sixth, seventh, and 

 eighth joints black, the fourth joint slightly shorter than either the 

 preceding or following one ; thorax rather more than twice as broad 

 as long, the sides augulate at the middle, very narrowly margined, all 

 the angles produced into a tooth, the surface very finely and rather 

 closely punctured, the posterior margin slightly produced and rounded 

 at the middle ; scutellum smooth, fulvous ; elytra convex, without 

 basal depression, finely punctured in closely approached rather regular 

 rows, each with six round black spots, placed transversely, of which 

 two are placed at the base, two before, and two immediately below the 

 middle ; under side and legs paler than the upper surface ; the inter- 

 mediate tibifB with a deep emargination at the apex, the latter provided 

 with a spine-like process ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi nearly 

 as long as the following joints together ; claws appeudiculate ; pro- 

 sternum deeply bilobed at the base ; the first joint of the anterior 

 tarsi very broad. 



Hah. — Peru. 



The single male specimen contained in my collection scarcely 

 fits into any of the genera placed amongst the Chalcophame, but 

 agrees best with Chalcoj^liana in general shape, that of the thorax 

 and the prosternum, and as the curious tibial structure may only 

 be present in the male, I have thought it best not to erect a new 

 genus on this character alone. Lanqn'opJices has also a slight 

 emargination of the intermediate tibite, but differs quite in the 

 shape of the thorax, and the mentioned emargination is nothing 

 like so marked as in the present insect, which would have to 

 be placed in a special genus should other similarly structured 

 species occur. 



