84 Rev. H. S. Gorliam's materials for a 



Aspidosoma sticticum, Gemra. Col. Heft. VI. 



,, maculatum, Fab. Ent. Syst. Sup. 125. 



Brazil. Buenos Ayres ; ? Bolivia, Mus. Brus. 

 Hah. ?— Gorh. [Norris.] 



The thorax has a spot at each hinder angle and some- 

 times a linear one near the apex. Length, 7 — 9 lines. 



Jispldosoma Uneatum, Gyll. Schon. Syn. Ins. App. p. 23. 



Mots. Etud. Ent. II. 11. 



Brazil, Bio Janeiro; Mus. Brus. ; Hah. 1 Gorh. j, ? . 



Like laterale, but smaller. 



Aspidosoma cassideum, Mots. Etud. Ent. II. 14. 

 Brazil ; Hah. ? Mus. Brus. 



Elytra of an uniform rusty red, strongly attenuated 

 towards the apex. Length, 7 — 9 lines. 



Aspidosoma fenestr alum, Blanch. A^oy. d'Orb. 111. 

 Cayenne and Bolivia ; Mus. Brus. [Guer. Men.] ; ? . 

 Like ignitum, but the elytra with two pale lateral spots, 

 one humeral, one median. 



Aspidosoma polyzonum. Chev. Col. Mex. Cent. I. fasc. 

 'iii. 51. 



Mexico ; coll. Chev. 



I cannot distinguish this from ignitum L. ; there is a 

 specimen of ignitum from the Antilles ; it may therefore 

 extend to Mexico. 



Aspidosoma grossmn, Er. Wieg. Arch. I. 81 ? 



Peru ; Mus. Brus. 



There is a specimen in the Belgium Museum which I 

 think is this. Fuscous ; elytra obscurely lined Avith paler 

 towards the apex, and with the anterior half of the ex- 

 panded margin whitish yellow. Length, 7 lines. 



Aspidosoma ccgrotiun, n. sp. 



Ovale, antlce posticeque attenuatum, prothoracis ely- 

 trorumque marginibus late sub-diaphanis, illo disco piceo, 

 linea mediana guttisque lateralibus miniatis, angulis 

 externis obsolete fuscis ; hig macula post medium obscura, 



