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coxae, aud the anal segment of the abdomen (its base excepted), shining 

 black ; legs as in the preceding species. 

 JIab. South Afi'ica. 



Genus Colaspis, Fabr. 



Colaspis dimidiata. 



C. oblongo-ovata, convexa, pallide fulva, uitida ; abdomine elytrorumque 

 dimidio postico nigris. — Long. 4-5 liu. 



Oblong-ovate, convex, pale shining fidvous ; abdomen and the pos- 

 terior half of the elytra shining black. Head smooth, front impressed 

 with an oblong fovea ; clypeus and lower portion of face elevated into 

 a triangular space, the apex of which extends upwards between the 

 antennae ; the latter nearly the length of the body, indistinctly thick- 

 ened towards their apex, six basal joints shining, the rest opake ; eyes 

 black. Thorax nearly twice broader at the base than long ; apex entire ; 

 sides slightly rounded, quickly nan-owed from the base to the apex, an- 

 terior angles produced laterally into a small obtuse tooth ; above very 

 convex, deflexed on either side in front ; surface subremotely impressed 

 with minute punctiu'es, only visible under a lens. Scutellum smooth, 

 impunctate. El}i:ra broader than the thorax, more than fom* times its 

 leng-th ; sides parallel ; apex acutely rounded ; above convex, each 

 elytron with ten distinctly punctured striae, the first abbreviated, each 

 stria, with the exception of the first, ninth and tenth, consisting of a 

 double row of punctures, interspaces between the fifth and ninth striae 

 costate. 



Hab. Peru. 



Colasjiis humeralis. 



C. ovato-oblonga, nigro-aenea, nitida ; elytris nigris, utrisque plaga magna 

 basali rufa; tibiis posticis ante apicem spina magna, apice curvata 

 instructis. — Long. 2^ lin. 



Ovate-oblong, shining nigro-aeneous ; elytra shining black, each with 

 a large subtriangidar patch at the base, extending fi'om the outer margin 

 nearly to the suture, and dowmwards rather more than a third the 

 length of the elytron, shining rufous. Head deeply inserted in the 

 thorax ; face pei-pendicular, deeply punctured, puncturing more crowded 

 on the clj^peus ; antennae subfiliform, half the length of the body, black, 

 basal joints fusco-fulvous. Thorax moderately convex, nearly as wide 

 at its base as the elytra ; sides rounded and narrowed from the base to 

 their apex ; sm-face finely punctm-ed. El\i:ra rather more than three 

 times longer than the thorax ; shoulders rounded, sides narrowly 

 margined, sinuate behind the anterior third ; apex acutely rounded ; 

 above moderately convex, transversely impressed below the shoulders ; 

 sm-face finely punctate-striate, the pimcturiug distinct in front, nearly 

 obsolete towards the apex. Body beneath obscm-e brassy-gi'een ; last 

 two segments of abdomen stained in the middle with obscure rufo- 

 piceous, apical segment deeply impressed with a large transversely 



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