36 HOMALISPA. 



Boiioath, with the pleuree and abdomen, black ; rest of surface 

 pale luteous. 



Hah. Brazil (Tejiica). 



A single specimen, captured bj J. Gray, Esq., in that gentleman's 

 collection. 



5. Homalispa Deyrollei, n. sp. 



H. elongato-ovata, depressa, flava, nitida ; antennis (basi excepto), 

 elytiis, pleiuis abdomineque nigris ; tibiis intermediis extrorsum, 

 femorum apice tibiisque paris postici, et tarsis j)osticis quatuor, 

 nigro-t'uscis. 



Long. 3 lin. 



H. elongate-ovate, depressed, pale shining yello^\' ; antennje (entire 

 first and the bases of the two follo'tting joints excepted), e^'es, 

 elytra, plciuse and abdomen black. Head smooth. Thorax at 

 its base rather more than half broader than long ; sides rounded, 

 much narrowed towards their apex, slightly so at their base, theii" 

 outer border, together with the basal margin near the posterior 

 angles, broadly rellexed ; apical margin deeply sinuate on either 

 side, its middle portion convex ; anterior angles acute, posterior 

 anned -snth an indistinct tooth ; above smooth and shining, broadly 

 but very slightly excavated on either side the disc, finely and 

 subremotely punctiu'cd. Scutellum smooth, pale yellow, its apex 

 produced, acute. Elytra rather broader than the base of the 

 thorax, narrowly ovate ; sides slightly, their apex regularly 

 rounded ; sutm'al angle obtiise ; margin narrowly dilated, outer 

 edge slightly reflexed, finely serrate, serratures fhstant and nearly 

 obsolete along the sides, crowded and more distinct toAvards the 

 apex ; above subdepressed, sides moderately convex, sinuate below 

 the shoiilders ; siu-face smooth, distinctly punctate-striate, punc- 

 timng on the anterior half of the outer disc irregular ; several of 

 the interstices at the extreme base indistinctly elevated. Beneath 

 yellow ; the abdomen black ; the outer edge of the intermediate 

 tibia?, the apex of the posterior thighs, the posterior tibiae and the 

 foui" hinder tarsi nigro-fuscous. 



Hah. St. Catherina, Brazil. 



A single specimen, in the collection of J. S. Baly. 



Much narrower than the foregoing insect, to which it is closely 

 allied in colouring ; its thorax also entirely difi'erent. 



6. Homalispa Batesii, n. sp, B.M. 



H. ovata, depressa, nitida, supra flava ; scutello antennisque nigris ; 



elytris laete \dolaceis ; subtus fulva ; pleuris pedibusque (femonim 



basi excepto) nigris. 

 Long. 2'j^ lin. 



//. ovate, depressed, above shining yellow; the scutellum and antcnnge 

 black ; elytra bright \-iolaceous. Head yellow, smooth ; vertex 



