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depressed below the basilar space, finely and regularly 
punctate-striate, two or three outer striz more strongly 
punctured, their interspaces moderately convex, the rest 
of the interspaces plane. 
Notozona Clarku. 
Anguste ovata, convexa, flava, nitida, femoribus apice, 
tibiis, “tarsis, scutello antennisque nigris, vertice piceo ; 
thorace levi : elytris oblongo-ovatis, regulariter punctato- 
striatis, sanguineis, sutura, basi, limbo basali, nee non 
limbo externo nigris. Long. 3 ln. 
Hab. Bahia. 
Vertex smooth, impunctate, front impressed on either 
side just above the encarpe with a transversely oblong 
fovea; encarpe contiguous; carina short, its apex wedge- 
shaped ; six lower joints of antennz black (the rest broken 
of). ‘Thorax twice as broad as long; sides straight and 
parallel from the base to beyond the middle, thence 
obliquely converging towards the apex, anterior angles 
armed with an excurved acute tooth; disk nitidous, 
transversely convex, faintly excavated at the base. 
Elytra broader than the thorax, slightly attenuated at 
the apex, conyex, distinctly punctate-striate, the inter- 
spaces finely punctured. 
Asphera oblecta. 
Aneuste ovata, convexa, obscure fulva, piceo tincta, 
capite fulvo-piceo, nitida, femoribus ¢ apice, tibiis tarsisque 
anticis quatuor, scutello, ore antennisque piceis; thorace 
levi, lacteo, lateribus rotundatis, a basi ad apicem con- 
vergentibus, angulis anticis imcrassatis, antrorsum pro- 
ductis ; elytris oblongis, lacteis, tenuissime piceo punc- 
tatis; utrisque plaga subquadrata vix infra basin, nec 
marginem nec suturam attingente, fasciaque irregulari 
inter medium et apicem, extrorsum abbreviata, positis, 
piceis, metallico tinctis. Long. 3} lin. 
Hab. Amazons. 
Head subrotundate ; vertex nitidous, impressed witha 
few round punctures, from each of which springs a single 
erect piceous hair; encarpe separated from the front by 
a transverse grooved line; eyes distinctly sinuate, 
subreniform ; lower portion of clypeus with a strongly 
raised transverse ridge, the anterior surface of which is 
oblique ; carima strongly raised, its lower end extending 
