266 Mr. n. W. Bates un CeramJnjdiltc 



Distinguished from all other Ehurice as yet described 

 by the total absence of ivory-like spots from the elytra. 

 A small oblong smooth callus, which exists in the middle 

 of the basal margin, may be taken as the sole vestige of 

 these characteristic spots, but this is rufous, like the 

 rest of the elytra. The insect is, nevertheless, a true 

 EJmria, and is, in fact, very closely allied to the common 

 E. octoijuttata (Germ.) of South Brazil, having the same 

 coarse punctuation or pitting of the surfoce of the 

 thorax, and a similar but rather more elevated tubercle 

 on the crown of the head, like the genus Styliceps.* The 



* Eburia octoguttata exists in some collections under the name of E. 

 didyma of OUvier. This must be wrong, as OHvier's insect, according to 

 his description, has no lateral spines to the thorax, Uke E. ^-maculata of 

 Linmuus, and is probably a West Indian species. A fine imdescribed 

 species of the octoguttata group is the following : — 



Ehuria maculicomis, n. sp. 



Eobusta, elongata, postice attenuata, supra minus convexa. Caput 

 nigricans, fulvo-tomeutosmn, vertico tubercido elevato obtuso. Antenna' 

 ( <J ) corpore duplo longiores, dimidio basaU infra griseo-cihata? ; con- 

 dylis rufis, articulo basah autice sulcato, nigro, apice extus macula rufa, 

 2ndo nigro, cieteris testaceo-rufis, apice nigris. Thorax transversus, nigri- 

 cans, fulvo-tomentosus, supra grosse punctatus, tuberculis duobus minus 

 elevatis, lateribus medio unispinosis. Elj-tra postice gradatim attenuata, 

 apice tntncata et bispinosa ; sTipra dorso deplanata, apud latera dechvia, 

 fere lavia, fulvo breviter pubescentia, maciilis parvis flavis vix elevatis, 

 baud ebumeis, utrinque quatuor, apud basin duabus discretis, externa 

 minori, alteris duabus paulo pone medium etiam discretis, interna minori. 

 Pedes rufo-testacei, validi, femora compressa, apice nigra, intermedia et 

 postica bispinosa. 



Long. 1 un. 3 hu. g . 



Hab. — Braziha merid. 



Another undescribed species differs from all others known to me in the 

 peculiarly short and thick basal joint of the antenmc. I name it after 

 the skilful Entomological traveller, Mr. Rogers, who has recently dis- 

 covered it in South Brazil. 



Ehuria Rogersi, n. sp. 



Elongato-oblonga, capite thoraccque vix elytris angustioribus ; fulvo- 

 rufa, elytris pallidioribus. Caput genis infra productis subspinosis ; tuberi- 

 bus autenniferis apice extus acutis, productis. Antenna? (<J) corpore 

 duplo longiores, infra longe cihata?, ai-ticulo basali brcvi, crasso, basi extus 

 dilutato, subauriculato, anticc concavo, articulo 3io snjira subcanaliculato. 

 Thorax trunsvoisus, grosse et dense punctatus, sui)ra tuberculis nigiis duo- 

 bus elevatis, lateribus spina mediana rufa. Elytra opaca, passim punc- 

 tata, breviter setosa, bicostulata, apice bispinosa, spinis nigris, extenia 

 multo longiori; supra macula flava ebui-nca elongata basali, hand clevata, 

 extus et postice nigro-margiuata, alteris duabus pone medium multo 

 longioribus, hnearibus et bene separatis, externa duplo interna longiore 

 et banc antice supcrante, baud nitidis, antice et postice nigro-niargi- 

 uatis. Pedes uuicolores ; femora intermedia et postica spinis duabus 

 brevibus nigris, interna majori. 



Long. 1 im. 2 lin. (J . 



Hab. — Santa Fe, Minas Geraes. A Dom. Rogers capta. 



