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b. Thorax basi ad apicem non anr/ttstatus, lateribus rectis out rotundutis, 

 antice a?i(/itstatis. 



4. (Ediopalpa laticollis, n. sp. B.M. 



(E. oblonga, nigra, nitida ; elytris cyaneis ; thorace longitiidinc cliiplo 



latiori, testaceo. 

 Long. 2f-3i lin. 



(E. oblong, moderately convex above ; shining black with a blnish 

 tinge; thorax testaceous ; elytra shining blue. Head smooth, punc- 

 tured between the eyes ; antennse black. Thorax twice as broad 

 as long ; sides dilated, somewhat thickened and reflexed, straight 

 and parallel behind, cui"ved obliquely inwards before their middle ; 

 anterior angles obtuse ; above smooth and shining ; disc convex ; 

 sides with a broad deeply impressed gi-oove just within the lateral 

 margin ; on the groove are a few distinct punctures, rest of 

 the surface impunctate ; just in front of the basal margin is an 

 indistinct transverse groove. Scutellimi smooth, black. Elytra 

 broader than the thorax ; shoulders rounded ; sides parallel, sHghtly 

 sinuate below the shoulders ; the apex rounded ; outer edge nar- 

 rowly reflexed, minutely serrate towards the apex ; above convex, 

 surface smooth and shining, distinctly punctate-striate, puncturing 

 coarser at the sides. 



Hab. Archedona ; Peru. 



British Museum and collection of J. S. Baly. 



Distinguished at once from the rest of the similarly coloured species 

 by its broad thorax, nearly as wide as the elytra ; the whole body is 

 also broader in proportion to its length. 



5. (Ediopalpa coUaris (Guer.). B.M. 



Cephaloleia coUaris, Guer. Icon, dti R^gne Anim. Texte, p. 281. 



Pertyi, Guer. Icon, du Rec/ne Anim. Texte, p. 282. 



Alumus cyanipennis ?, Perty, Delect. An. Art. p. 99. t. 20. f. 4. 



CE. elongata, parallela, modice convexa, nitida; capitenigro; antennis 

 subfiliformibus ; thorace lateribus rectis, antice rotundato-angus- 

 tatis, rubro, apice nigro-c»ruleo ; elytris jiunctato-striatis, cyaneis; 

 subtus nigro-caendea ; thoracis lateribus mbris ; maris abdominis 

 segmento anali apice sinuato, foemince rotundato. 



Long. 2i-3| lin. 



CE. elongate, parallel, moderately convex, shining. Head and an- 

 tennae black, the latter subfdiform. Thorax bright red, with an 

 angular brassy- or blue-black spot on the apical margin, transverse; 

 sides subparallel and nearly straight from the base to beyond their 

 middle, thence to the apex narrowed and rounded, sometimes at 

 the termination of the straight portion is an indistinct angle ; base 

 moderately sinuate on either side ; medial lobe deflexed, obtusely 

 truncate, black ; above smooth and shining, convex, distantly 

 punctured, and with several more or less distinct shallow excava- 



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