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DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES 

 of PHFTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA from Bolivie 



L»y Martin Ji»col>y. 



A small collection of Phytophaga from Santos Marcos in Bolivia 

 has been lately acquired by the Belgian Muséum and has been 

 submitted to me for examination ; ail the spécimens were collected 

 at an élévation of 2000 meter ; the greater portion of them repre- 

 sent well known forms also found in Ecuador and other places of 

 South America, a certain number seem to be undescribed or new, 

 of thèse as far as I was enabled to do, I give hère the descriptions. 



Megalopus nigrovittatus n. sp. 



Fulvous ; thorax piceous, the margins and two small spots near 

 the base, /lavons, elytra strongly punctured, fiavous, a narrow 

 transverse band at the base and another below the middle, black, 

 posterior femora with a strong tooth. 



Length4 lines. 



Of narrow and nearly parallel shape, the head closely 

 punctured between the eyes, fulvous at the vertex, with a small 

 flavous spot between the antennae, clypeus with a narrow transverse 

 black spot, the punctured space between the eyes nearly black 

 (antennae broken off) ; thorax not longer than broad, slightly 

 narrowed in front, the dise piceous, the base fulvous, the anterior 

 and latéral margins flavous as well as two small spots at the sides 

 near the base, the surface with a few small punctures; scutellum 

 piceous, finely punctured; elytra longitudinally depressed near the 

 suture and at the sides, rather strongly and closely punctured, 

 flavous, with a narrow transverse band at the base which envelopes 

 the shoulders and extends downwards for some distance along the 

 latéral margin, another band is placed below the middle across 

 the elytra; below fulvous, the sides of the breast and of the 

 abdomen, flavous; legs fulvous, the posterior femora very robust, 

 armed with a strong and curved tooth, the posterior tibiae 

 strongly curved, clawjoint piceous. A single spécimen. 



Lema semiflava n. sp. 



Black, the first joint of the antennae, the head, thorax and the 

 apex of the abdomen flavous ; thorax impunctate, elytra with a 



