210 THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



? . Head produced, entirely impunctate, the vertex swollen and 

 shining ; the clypeus separated from the face by a feeble triangular 

 groove, its anterior margin triangularly emarginate ; apex of the man- 

 dibles black; eyes large, oval, nearly entire; antennae very long for the 

 genus, entirely testaceous, joints two and three very short, the following 

 slightly triangularly widened ; thorax strongly transverse, the posterior 

 margin nearly straight, almost without median lobe, the posterior angles 

 rounded, the surface entirely impunctate ; scutellum broad at the base, 

 the apex pointed and slightly carinate ; elytra distinctly lobed below the 

 shoulders, impunctate or with a few minute punctures at the base; 

 the humeral callus sometimes with a small obscure piceous spot ; legs 

 elongate, the first joint of the tarsi about one-half longer than the 

 second. 



This is the first species of the genus recorded from any other 

 part of the New World than Mexico ; from the latter country 

 three species are known. The Trinidad insect is much distin- 

 guished by the comparatively long antennae, which extend quite 

 to the base of the thorax, and have their joints much less trans- 

 verse and serrate than in most other species of Clythridee. I 

 unfortunately know only the female ; the male differs probably in 

 having elongate anterior legs and tarsi. I received the specimens 

 with a small lot of Phytophaga from the same locality. 



Otilea peeuana, sp. n. 



Bright metallic green or blue below, above dark aeneous or green ; 

 antennas black, the base fulvous ; thorax confluently rugose at the sides 

 and angulate ; elytra deeply foveolate punctate-striate near the suture, 

 confluently rugose at the sides, the interstices longitudinally costate. 

 Length 8-9 mill. 



Hab. Marcapata, Peru. 



5 . Head closely rugose punctate, the intraocular space longitudin- 

 ally sulcate ; eyes large, epistome strongly punctured at the base, smooth 

 anteriorly ; antennjB bluish black, the lower three joints more or less 

 fulvous ; thorax short and strongly transverse, the lateral margins dis- 

 tinctly angulate at the middle and to a smaller degree before and below 

 the latter, the middle of the disc deeply foveolate punctate, the inter- 

 stices convex, the sides more crowded and confluently rugose punctate ; 

 scutellum smooth ; elytra with single rows of very deep punctures near 

 the suture, irregularly confluently punctate at the sides, the interstices 

 longitudinally costate ; femora metallic bluish or green ; the tibiaa and 

 tarsi purplish blue. 



I would have referred this species to 0. amazonica, Lef. (C. 

 Rend. Ent. Soc. Belg. 1891) but for the following differences : — 

 Lefevre describes his species with the epistome smooth, and the 

 elytra subgeminate punctate, also of greenish aeneous colour ; in 

 the two specimens before me the under side of one is bright green, 

 the other blue ; in the green specimen, the elytral costae are 

 purplish, in the other, the interior of the punctures is golden. 



