.392 ^If. .1. S. Iroiy's descriptions of ti 



hroad as long at the base ; sides straio-lit and parallel, 

 finely serrulate, anterior angles obliquely truncate, pro- 

 duc'cd laterally into an ill-defined tooth ; basal margin 

 ulth its medial lobe moderately but distinctly produced, 

 bi-oadl}' rounded ; surface -very finely strigose, subremotely 

 ])unctured ; basal groove strongly impressed, not flexuose. 

 Elytra broader than the thorax, ovate, convex, faintly 

 depressed below the basilar space, strongly punctate- 

 striate ; interspaces obsoletely thickened on the inner 

 disk, distinctly convex towards the apex and on the outer 

 disk, sparingly clothed with long, suberect, whitish hairs. 



Ejiitrix torrida. 



Ovata, convexa, nigro-picea, nitida, antennis pedi- 

 busque (femoribus posticis exceptis) fulvis ; thorace dis- 

 tincte, minus remote punctato, suico basali flexuoso ; 

 elytris fidvo-setosis, piceo-fidvis, regulariter puuctato- 

 striatis, punctis piceis. 



Long. ^ lin. 



Hub. — Brazil, New Friburg. 



Vertex smooth, impunctate ; encarpa? narrow, oblique, 

 not contiguous ; front impressed just above the apex of 

 the carina with a short, longitudinal fovea ; antenna) more 

 than half the length of the body, entirely fulvous ; tlurd 

 joint equal in length to the second. Thorax nearly twice 

 as broad at the base as long ; sides very slightly converg- 

 ing from base to apex; anterior angle obliquely truncate, 

 produced laterally into a small tooth ; basal margin 

 faintly sinuate on either side the medial lobe, the latter 

 produced, subangulate ; upper surface rather finely but 

 distinctly ])unctured ; basal groove flexuose. Elytra 

 S{)aringly clothed with short hairs, regularly punctate- 

 sti-iate, the intei'spaces plane, impunctate ; basilar space 

 slightly elevated. 



Epitrix cceruleata. 



Oblongo-ovata, convexa, nigra, nitida, coendeo-micans ; 

 s\ipra metallico-coerulea, viridi-tincta, antennis nigris ; 

 thorace remote, tenuiter punctato, sidco basali modice 

 impresso, flexuoso ; elytris sparse setosis, sat fortiter punc- 

 tato-striatis, interspatiis ad latera incrassatis. 



Long. If; lin. 



H(d>. — Brazil, New Friburg. I possess a specimen 

 labelled Bogota ; this is probably a mistake. 



