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the surface to appear loosely reticulate ; outer border dilated, 

 slightly deflexed, its surface covered with several rows of deep 

 punctures, their interstices transversely elevated ; each elytron 

 with two large black spots, the first placed at the base, the other 

 below the middle. Tarsi fuscous. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



A single specimen in my own collection. 



Genus Calliaspis, Boh. 



Calliasp'is Bohemani. 



Ovata, sub-convexa, pallide fulva, supra nitldo-nigra, anguste 



fulvo-limbata, antennis flavo-albis, apice nigris. 

 Long 2 — 24 lin. 



Ovate, sub-convex, pale fulvous beneath, shining black above, 

 narrowly edged with fulvous ; antennae yellowish-white, three 

 terminal joints (the apex of the last of these excepted) black. 

 Head smooth ; antennae longer than the head and thorax. Thorax 

 twice as broad as long at the base, deeply concave-emarginate in 

 front, sides dilated, regularly rounded, narrowed from their base 

 to the apex; above convex, slightly concave near the sides; sur- 

 face smooth and shining, finely and remotely punctured, punc- 

 turing at the sides rather coarser and more crowded ; on either 

 side the centre of the disc is a single shallow fovea ; the ex- 

 treme lateral and apical margins narrowly edged w'ith fulvous. 

 Scutellum smooth, impunctate. Elytra not wider than the thorax 

 at the base, rather broader across their middle ; humeral angles 

 sub-acute, sides rounded and dilated to their middle, thence regu- 

 larly rounded to the apex ; above sub-convex, sides deeply de- 

 pressed transversely below the shoulders; each elytron with eleven 

 rows of fine punctures, the first abbreviated ; dilated border de- 

 flexed, smooth, impunctate ; extreme lateral margin fulvous. 

 Beneath pale fulvous. 



Hab. Peru, Upper Amazons. 



Genus Porphyraspis, Hope. 



Porphyraspis jiulcliella. 



Subquadrato-rotundata, convexa, nitido-rufa ; thoracis lateribus 



clytrisque purpureis, his plaga magna antica rufa. 

 Long. 2j lin. 



Sub,quadrale-rotundate, convex, shining rufous; sides of 



