collected by the late Mr. P. Bouchard at Sta. Marta, 287 
ZEALE, n. g. 
Caput antice subquadratum, convexum. Antenne basi dis- 
tantes, fimbriatee, elongate ; scapocylindrico; articulo tertio 
longiore ; ceteris gradatim decrescentibus. Prothorax bre- 
viter cylindricus, basi paulo constrictus. Zlytra brevius- 
cula, apicem versus sensim angustiora, lateribus haud cari- 
nato-declivibus. | Femora subincrassata; tarsi mediocres, 
zequales ; ungues bifide. Pro- et meso-sterna simplicia. 
The absence of the carina on the line where the declivous por- 
tion of the elytron commences is, I am inclined to think, one of. 
the main distinctions between the. Amphionychine and the Phy- 
teciine, and consequently the present genus will belong to the 
latter. The affinities are not very obvious, but it is evidently not 
to be placed in any genus hitherto described. 
ZEALE SCALARIS, n. sp. (PI. XX. fig. 1.) 
Z. nivea; antennis basi, capite inter oculos, prothoraceque ma- 
culis nigris; elytrorum marginibus, apice, fasciisque tribus 
ad suturam interruptis, nigris. 
Pubescent, snowy white, barred and spotted with black ; head 
white, a black band between the eyes, and two black spots in 
front ; antennz twice as long as the body, the scape black, the 
rest of the joints brownish-yellow tipped with black; prothorax 
with four black spots, a central, an anterior, and two lateral ; scu- 
tellum white; elytra white, the sides and four bands (not meeting 
at the suture, and the last nearly apical) black, apices emarginate ; 
body beneath dark brown on the breast, the abdomen yellowish, 
the sides white ; legs yellow, the claws black, 
Length 4 lines. 
TsomertDA* amicta,n. sp. (PI. XX. fig. 2.) 
I. fulvo-grisea ; prothorace utrinque macula magna lete cru- 
enta ornato, 
Covered with a yellowish-grey pubescence, with longer hairs 
intermixed ; head yellowish; antennz longer than the body, fim- 
briated, black, the bases of all the joints from the third inclusive 
white ; prothorax transverse, the central line black, sides bright 
* This genus will be defined by Mr. Bates in an early number of the Ann, 
& Mag. Nat. Hist. The type is Amphionycha albicollis (Dej.) 
