New Genera and Species of Phytophaga. Sue 
Genus Lamprospuxrvs, mihi (olim). 
In a paper in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History 
(1859, p. 124), I described some species of Eumolpide as belong- 
ing to the genus Lamprospherus, the characters of which, as then 
understood by me, I at the same time laid down; subsequent study 
however of the group has shown me that the insects then described 
belong to no less than three very natural genera, confounded by 
me under one common head. I propose in the present place to 
give briefly the diagnostic characters of these three genera, retain- 
ing for one of them my old name—Lamprospherus. 
Genus Lamprospu rus. 
Corpus breviter ovato-rotundatum aut rotundatum, valde con- 
vexum. Caput in thoracem insertum, perpendiculare ; an- 
tennis gracilibus, filiformibus, longitudine corporis breviori- 
bus. Thorax basi elytrorum latitudini fere equalis, margine 
laterali inferiori non incrassato; supra convexus, nunquam gib- 
bosus, lateribus muticis, basi aut rotundato-angustatis aut 
rotundatis, hinc ad apicem angustatis. lytra levia aut 
confuse aut subseriatim punctata, limbo inflexo obliquo. 
Pedes mediocres ; femoribus posticis muticis; unguiculis 
appendiculatis. Prosternum latitudine paullo longius, rarius 
transversum, sulcis suturalibus inter prosternum et episterna 
antica obsoletis ; episternt antici angulo externo antico ad 
thoracis angulum non producto. 
Type Lamprospherus collaris, mihi, (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 
1859, p. 124). 
1. Lamprospherus Hebe. 
Ovato-rotundatus, valde convexus, fulvo-rufus, nitidus; vertice, 
thorace, elytrorumque tertio postico viridi-zneis; antennis 
pedibusque pallide fulvis, tibiis posticis intus curvatis, apice 
acuminatis ; elytris seriatim punctatis ; abdomine medio piceo. 
Long 13 lin. 
Hab. Amazons. 
2. Lamprospherus 5-pustulatus. 
Ovato-rotundatus, valde convexus, niger, nitidus; antennis 
pedibusque fulvis; abdomine, elytrorumque  singulorum 
apice et pustulis duabus magnis, und basali, alter pone 
medium posita, rufo-testaceis. 
Long. 13 lin. 
Hab. Amazons. 
