■of some species of Chrijsomela, §v'. 195 



fascilsquc interruptis tribus, una subbasali, secuncla prope 

 medium tertiaque ante apicem castaneis. 



Long. 4g — 4| lin. 



Hub. — Trinidad. 



Head very finely and distantly punctured ; dyjieus 

 transverse, Avell defined, faintly depressed, rather more 

 strongly so on either side, more strongly and closely punc- 

 tured than the front ; antennae about half the length of 

 the body, very slightly thickened towards the apex, the 

 basal joint beneath, together with the second at its 

 extreme apex, piceous ; mandibles robust, rather larger in 

 the $, abruptly angled in the middle in both sexes, 

 coarsely punctured. Thorax more than twice as broad as 

 long ; sides straight and parallel from the base to far 

 beyond the middle in the $ , then rounded and converging 

 to the apex, the anterior angle acute, the hinder one 

 slightly produced, very acute ; in the ? the sides are less 

 straight and parallel in front, being rounded from just 

 before their middle ; apical border deeply excavated ; disk 

 transversely convex, faintly excavated on either side, finely 

 and remotely jDunctured. Elytra broader than the thorax, 

 quadrate-ovate, broadly rounded at the apex, above 

 convex ; each elytron with eleven rows of fine but distinct 

 punctures, the first short, those on the outer disk rather 

 confused ; intersjDaces plane, impunctate ; each elytron with 

 a submarginal irregularly interrupted castaneous vitta 

 and three (also interrupted) concolorous fasciai, one just 

 below the basal margin, one across the middle, and a third 

 some little distance before the apex ; these fascia3, which 

 externally join the sujjmarginal vitta, are formed of 

 irregular spots and probably in some specimens are nearly 

 obsolete. Sternal spine acute, equal in length to the 

 metasternum. 



Nearly allied in form to D. cestuans, rather larger than 

 that species, the sides of the thorax moi'C parallel. 



Dorijpliorafuloopasliilata. 



Ovata, ad a])icem attenuata, convexa, picea, nitida, 

 capite thorace([ue subnitidis, rmico tinctis, anteiniaruni 

 articulis ultiinis duobus albido-fiavis ; thoi'ace sat fortiter 

 granuloso, subcrebre punctato; elytris subseriatim punc- 

 tatis, granulosis, utrisque pustulis hevibus sex, duobus 



