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Head and thorax black, the latter with its lateral mar- 

 gins flavous ; scutellum black. Elytra flavous, orange- 

 coloured near their apex, with their suture black for two- 

 thirds of its length, where it is inet by a transverse band 

 of the same colour ; the apex and a vitta, extending from 

 the shoulder to just above the transverse post-median 

 band, are also black. Beneath, blacky with a yellow spot 

 in the middle of each abdominal segment, the last ex- 

 cepted. Legs and antenna black. 



Head punctured, impressed between the eyes. Thorax 

 twice as wide at the base as long ; anterior margin much 

 produced in the centre, and rounded, half as long as the 

 base ; sides rounded ; posterior angles acute, overlapping 

 the shoulders of the elytra ; base nearly straight ; sur- 

 face finely punctured, with a slightly impressed dorsal 

 line ; sides raised. Elytra punctate, sti-iate, three of the 

 interstices on each more raised than the rest, twice and 

 a quarter as long as wide ; sides subparallel ; apex of each 

 widely and obliquely truncate, armed with two short 

 spines. Underside, and legs, punctured, covered with 

 short silvery pubescence. 



Length 9 lines ; breadth 3 lines. 



Hah. — Brazil. 



Allied to H. interrogationis, but much shorter in rela- 

 tion to its width. The markings also are very different, 

 and I cannot think that any variation in the spread of 

 the yellow colour in interrogationis could form the mark- 

 ings observable on the species above described. 



Acherusia Parrii (PL I. fig. 6) . 



A. nigro-cyanea ; capite thoraceque punctatis ; elytria 

 humeris maculaque utrinque prope apicem igneo- 

 cupreis, fortiter punctato-striatis : subtus punctata ; 

 pedibus punctatis. 



Dark cyaneous. Elytra with a spot on each below the 

 base covering the shoulder, and another just above the 

 apex, coppery red. 



Head punctured. Thorax once and three-quarters as 

 broad as long ; anterior margin half as long as the base, 

 its angles closely surrounding the eyes ; sides diverging 

 for about half their length, then rounded and very 

 slightly sinuate to the posterior angles, which are acute ; 

 base with a pointed central lobe ; surface punctured. 



