86 South American species of Diahrotica. 



Spec. 160. Diahrotica diversicolor. 



Anguste ovata, postice ampliata, convexa, nigra ; femoribus 

 posticis ad basin abdomineque fulvis, pedibus antennisque prasinis, 

 his extrorsum pallide piceis, pectoris lateribus dense fulvo hirsutis ; 

 thorace bifoveolato ; elytris crebre sat fortiter jjunctatis, ad latera 

 plicatis, sordide rufis. 



Long. 3^ lin. 



Hah. Ecuador. Coll. Fry; a single specimen. 



Head triangular, scarcely longer than broad ; clypeal ridge ill- 

 defined ; antennae filiform, rather more than three-fourths the 

 length of the body, the second and third joints short, nearly equal > 

 the fourth longer than the preceding two united ; the seven lower 

 joints prasinous, the four upper ones pale piceous. Thorax scarcely 

 broader than long ; sides parallel and sinuate from the base to 

 beyond the middle, thence obliquely rounded and converging 

 towards the apex ; upper surface opaque, excavated on the hinder 

 disk, impressed on either side with an oblique fovea. Elytra 

 convex, strongly punctured, plicate below the humeral callus. 



