60 CEPHALOLEIA. 



broader than long- ; sides straight and parallel, slightly narrowed 

 and rounded in front, produced beyond the apical margin ; outer 

 border incrassate ; apical margin nearly straight, anterior angles 

 obtuse ; surface smooth and shining, convex transversely, finely 

 and indistinctly punctured ; sides irregularly depressed, subcana- 

 liculate just within the thickened lateral margin. Scutellum 

 smooth, impunctate. Elytra broader than the thorax ; sides sub- 

 parallel, narrowlj- margined, apex regularly rounded ; above sub- 

 depressed along the back, convex on the sides, the latter slightly 

 sinuate below the shoulders, outer border reflexed ; surface smooth, 

 bright brassy black ; each elytron with eleven rows of fine punc- 

 tures, the first abbre\-iated, stride near the suture indistinct ; inter- 

 stices obsoletely and uTcgularly impressed. Beneath entirely blacli. 

 Female. Anal segment of abdomen (Tab. III. fig. 30) truncate, 

 obsoletely sinuate on either side. 

 Hah. Venezuela. 



Unique, in the Museum collection. 



31. Cephaloleia tarsata, n. sp. 



C. elongata, depressa, nigra, subnitida ; tarsis fulvis. 

 Foim. Abdominis segmento anali truncato. 



Long. 2^ lin. 



C. elongate, depressed, black, subopaque ; tarsi fulvous ; coxa3 and 

 sides of thorax obscure piceous. Head punctured ; front concave 

 between the eyes ; antenna) filiform, basal joint subincrassate, 

 much longer than the second. Thorax transverse, nearly twice as 

 broad as long ; sides rounded, subsiniiate near the posterior angles, 

 narrowed in front, narrowly margined, their outer edge minutely 

 serrulate ; apical margin concave ; anterior angles rounded, ob- 

 tuse, posterior armed with a short obtuse tooth ; above transversely 

 convex, indistinctly reflexed on the sides, the latter covered with 

 coarse deep punctui-es, disc more finely punctiu'cd ; black, extreme 

 lateral border obscure piceous. Scutellum smooth, impunctate. 

 Elytra scarcely broader than the thorax, humeral angles rounded; 

 sides parallel, narrowly margined ; apex obtusely rounded, con- 

 jointly emarginate at the suture ; above depressed along the back, 

 convex on the sides, outer border narrowly reflexed, its edge 

 distantly and obsoletely sernilate, serratui-es more crowded at 

 the apex ; each elytron with eleven rows of deeply impressed 

 punctiu'es, the first abbreviated; their interstices slightly elevated, 

 convex ; pygidium narrowed from base to apex, the latter tnm- 

 cate. Beneath black ; coxte piceous ; tarsi fulvous. 



Female. Apical segment of abdomen (Tab. III. fig. 31) truncate. 



Hah. Columbia. 



A single specimen in the collection of J. 8. Baly. 



32. Cephaloleia depressa, n. sp. B.M. 



C. clongala. \-alde depressa, nigra, nitida ; thorace transverso, lateri- 

 bus Icniter (>xplanato-rotundatis, piceis. 



