8 Rev. H. S. Gorham's materials for a 



Cladodes stellata, n. sp. 



Niger, prothorace, elytrisque flavis, his apice late, illo 

 disco nigro. 



Long. lin. 7; lat. 3g. 



Very like Jlahellicornis, Mots., in colour, but smaller, 

 and distinguished from it by the thorax being much more 

 coarsely and deeply punctured on the yellow margin ; in 

 jlahellicornis there is a short carina on the base of the 

 black discoidal patch, this is absent in stellata ; the 

 scutellura is yelloto at its apex, but pitchy-black at the 

 base alone, and there is a slight dark stain on the elytra 

 on each side of the scutellum which I have not observed 

 in Jiabellicornis. 



From Demorilini, to which it is more nearly related, 

 the nearly total absence of the black round the scutellum, 

 and the less extended black colour of the apex of the 

 elytra distinguish it. 



Rio Janeiro, Brus. M. 



Cladodes ventralis, n. sp. 



Niger, prothorace, elytris basi apiceque, abdominis 

 segmentis quatuor primis in medio flavis. 

 Long. lin. 6^. 



Black, prothorax yellow, small in proportion to the size 

 of the insect, obsoletely and finely punctured, elytra 

 fuscous black, with the basal third and apical margin 

 yellow ; the yellow portion of the base extends itself 

 angularly about to the middle, the first two segments of 

 the abdomen are nearly entirely yelloAv, the third and fourth 

 yellow in the middle. Possibly this is the luminous portion, 

 as spots are not evident on the seventh segment. 



The lamellffi of the antennae are rather long. 



The single specimen of this species I have seen is a 

 very old one, probably from Norris's collection ; the 

 elytra are somewhat shrivelled, but the specimen is other- 

 wise perfect. 



Hab. (?)— Gorh. 



Cladodes nigricollis , n. sp. 



Ater, elytris croceis, apice nigris. 

 Long. lin. 7. 



Elytra little wider than the thorax, the latter finely 

 rugose at the margins, disc rough, but scarcely punctured. 



