20 Mr. Joseph S. Baly on the 



ad basin piceis, apice albidis ; thorace sat fortiter bifoveolato ; elytris 

 rugulosis, cyaneis, limbo externo, apice ami)liato, Isevi, flavo. 

 Long. 3^ lin. 



Hdh. Colombia ; Magdalena Eiver. Unique in my 

 collection. 



Head not longer than broad ; ridge on clypeus ill-defined ; 

 antennas filiform, equal to the body in length, the second joint 

 short, the third one-half longer, the fourth longer than the pre- 

 ceding two united, the three or four lower joints more or less 

 piceous, the three upper ones yellowish white. Thorax slightly 

 longer than broad ; sides nearly parallel and faintly sinuate, 

 slightly converging in front, the hinder angles somewhat produced, 

 subacute ; upper surface nitidous, hinder disk excavated and 

 impressed on either side with a large deep fovea. Elytra narrowly 

 oblong, slightly dilated posteriorly, moderately convex, distinctly 

 and rather closely punctured, disk irregularly wrinkled, rugulose, 

 plicate below the humeral callus, the subhumeral costa extending 

 downwards below the middle, not strongly defined, but bounded 

 within by a broad longitudinal sulcation ; metallic-blue, the outer 

 limb, dilated at the apex, flavous, its surface smoother than that of 

 the disk. 



Spec. 28. Diahrotica Fowleri. 



Anguste elongata, fere parallela, modice convexa, nigra, nitida, 

 femoribus ad apicem exceptis, antennarumque articulo penultimo 

 {ultimo fracto) albidis, thorace leviter bifoveolato, nigro-piceo, 

 utrinque vitta lata albida ; elytris parallelis, distiucte punctatis, 

 utroque vitta lata, a basi fere ad apicem extensa, albida. 



Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. Brazil, New Friburg. My collection. Rio 

 Janeiro ; coll. Fry. 



Head triangular, not longer than broad ; clypeal I'idge ill- 

 defined ; antennae fiUform, rather shorter than the body, the 

 second joint short, obovate, the third rather longer than the second, 

 the fourth one-half longer than the preceding two united. Thorax 

 rather broader than long ; sides parallel and faintly sinuate from 

 the base to beyond the middle, thence slightly converging towards 

 the apex ; disk nitidous, impunctate, impressed on either side with 

 a large shallow fovea. Elytra parallel, moderately convex, plicate 

 below the humeral callus, distinctly punctured. 



Spec. 29. Didhrutica hilmeata. 

 Anguste elongata, fere parallela, modice convexa, nigra, nitida, 

 antennarum articulis penultimis duobus albidis ; thorace trifoveo- 



