504 Mr. M. Jacoby 07i 



a Lroad band at the base and another below the middle, not extend- 

 ing to the sides or apex, metallic blue. 



Length 8 millim. 



Fern. Head finely punctured at the vertex, the latter convex, rather 

 deeply grooved at the middle, epistome more strongly punctured, 

 apex of the mandibles black ; antenna? not extending to the middle 

 of the elytra, robust, black, the lower three joints fulvous, third and 

 fourth joint equal, the following joints rather strongly thickened ; 

 thorax twice as broad as long, of nearly equal width, the sides straight 

 at the base, feebly rounded anteriorly, the surface finely and 

 sparingly punctured, reddish fulvous ; scutellum flavous ; elytra 

 elongate, subcylindrical, very closely, strongly and rather irregularly 

 punctured, the interstices somewhat raised, the anterior half occupied 

 Ijy a regnlar-sliaped, transverse blue band not extending to the 

 lateral margins, the posterior portion with a rather broader band, 

 similarly abbreviated at the sides and apex, leaving these of the 

 fiavous ground colour which also separates the blue bands at the 

 middle, in shape of a narrow and very regular band ; below and tlie 

 femora fulvous, the til)i;e and tarsi black. 



Kal). Brazil, Espiritii Santo. 



Evidently very closely allied to H. fasciafns, Lef., and 

 nearly agreeing in its system of coloration with that 

 species, but without an}'- marks on the thorax and the 

 punctuation of the latter not dense and aciculate as Lefevre 

 describes his species, the general size of U. militaris also 

 smaller. 



Colaspoides ])avonina, sp. n. 



Fulvous or piceous, terminal joints of the antenna? black, thorax 

 very sparingly and minutely punctured, elytra closely and finely 

 punctured, two spots at the base, one at the sides below the middle 

 and another at the apex of each elytron, flavous. 



Var. Elytra flavous, the margins and two transverse l^ands, one 

 before, the other below the middle, piceous. 



Length 7 millim. 



Fern. Head minutely punctured, dark fulvous or piceous, the 

 clypeus not separated from the face, antenna? rather short, fulvous, 

 the terminal five joints black, third and fourth joints equal; thorax 

 more than twice as broad as long, finely and sparingly punctured, 

 the sides rounded and narrowed towards the apex, the surface dark 

 fulvous, shining, scutellum fulvous ; elytra very closely and 

 rather irregularly punctured, fulvous, each with four flavous spots 

 which are surrounded by black rings, of these spots two are placed 



