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Ovate. Head scarcely broader than long, rounded in front, 

 black, obscure, very thickly punctured. Thorax convex, with the 

 sides rounded, and with a very faint transverse furrow across the 

 middle of the disc ; black, somewhat obscure, very thickly punc- 

 tured, but with a narrow, smooth longitudinal line in the centre. 

 Scutellum broad and rounded at the apex, not reaching the apex 

 of the abdomen; pitchy black with the margins red; thickly 

 punctured, with a smooth longitudinal central line. Coriaceous 

 portion of the elytra truncated at the apex, orange testaceous, 

 thickly punctured with brown ; a brown longitudinal band run- 

 ning from the middle of the base along the inner margin to the 

 apex, and an abbreviated line of the same colour near the outer 

 margin. Membrane white. Abdomen black, shining, very finely 

 punctured, with the disc nearly smooth, the edge reddish. Breast 

 black, somewhat obscure, very thickly and rather coarsely punc- 

 tured. Legs pitchy red with the tarsi ferruginous. Rostrum 

 pitchy red. Antennae reddish testaceous, darker towards the 

 apex. 



a. Demerara? 



9. CORIMEL^ENA albipennis. 



Scutellera albipennis, Eschsch. Dorp. Abh. i. 159 (1822). 

 Odontoscelis albipennis, Germ. Zeits.i.39. 7 (1839) ; H. Schdff. 

 Wanz. v. 13 & 34. t. 149. fig. 472 (1839). 

 a. Chili. From Mr. Cuming's Collection. 



10. CORIMEL^ENA puHcaria. 



Odontoscelis pulicarius, Germ. Zeits. i. 39. 6 (1839) ; H. Schdff. 

 Wanz. v. 34 (1839). 



a. N. America. From Mr. Children's Collection. 



b. N. America. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



c. New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



11. CORIMEL^ENA lateralis. 



Tetyra lateralis, Fab. S. R. 142. 68 (1803); Wolff, Ic. dm. 



1*75. t. 17. fig. 1697(1811). 

 Odontoscelis lateralis, Germ. Zeits. i. 39. 5 (1839); H. Schdff. 



Wanz. v. 13 & 34. t. 149. fig. 473 (1839). 

 a. Mexico ? From Mr. Children's Collection. 



12. CORIMEL^ENA marginella, n. s. 



C. rotundato-ovata, convexa, thorace latiori, nigra, nitida, punc- 

 tatissima, elytrorum marginibus albis ; antennis tarsisque fer- 

 rugineis. 

 Long. lin. 1^, lat. thor. lin. 1. 



Rounded ovate, broadest across the posterior angles of the 



