EUEISPA. 85 



necar the anterior angle running suddenly inwards, and forming 

 nearly a right angle ; above smooth and shining, slightly convex, 

 disc impunctato, •with a shallow impression on either side, sides 

 deeply but not very closely punctured. Scutellum smooth and 

 shining. Elytra convex; sides parallel, narrowly margined; apical 

 margin (Tab. III. fig. 41) produced posteriorly to form a short 

 triangular reflexed process, its surface rugose ; the two conjointly 

 fonn at the suture a deep angular notch, sutural angle unarmed ; 

 surface of each elytron with eleven rows of regularly punctured 

 strife, the first abbreviated ; fulvous, the outer margin, the pos- 

 terior third of the suture, a humeral point, and two transverse 

 fasciiB, common and abbreviated externally, black ; the first of 

 these is placed just before the middle of the elytra ; the second, 

 placed immediately behind the middle, is somewhat larger, oblique, 

 and forms with the one on the opposite elytron an obtuse angle 

 at the suture. Beneath shining black ; head beneath, breast and 

 abdomen obscure fulvous. 



Hah. Columbia? 



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



Genus XXI. EURISPA. DetaHs, Tab. II. Fig. 3. 



A^itennoi (fig. 3 «) dimicho corporis breviores, robust®, filiformes vel 

 subfiliformes, apicem versus lenitcr incrassatas, articulo prime 

 brevi, incrassato, duobus proximis fere a^qualibus, iitrisque primo 

 longioribus, subcylindricis, caeteris brevioribus, oblongis, ultimo 

 longiori, siibacuto. 



Lahrum (fig. 3 b) transversum. 



Mandihulce (fig. 3 c) apice tnmcatse. 



Palpi maxiUares (fig. 3 d) articulo primo parvo ; caeteris longitudine 

 fere sequalibus, subeompressis, secundo et tertio subclavatis, 

 ultimo ovato ; lahiales (fig. 3 e) articulo primo parvo, secundo 

 clavato, ultimo ovato. 



Mentum (fig. 3/) transverso-quadi'atum, apice pauUo rotundatum ; 

 ligxda (fig. 3 (j) pentagona ; segmento apicali (fig. 3 h) basi in- 

 crassato. 



Caput antice subverticale, tuberculis duobus inter oculos instructum ; 

 ocidis subovatis, non prominulis. 



Thorax latitudine fere duplo longior, antice paullo productiis et leni- 

 ter rotundatus, lateribus parallelis, rectis. 



ScuteUum oblongum, apice rotundatum. 



Elytra thorace vix latiora, elongata, angustata, convexa, apice cau- 

 data. 



Pedes breves ; tarsis articulo primo basi paullo ampliato, oblongo, se- 

 cimdo et tertio subtriangularibus, ungue brevi ultra tertii lobos 

 non producto. 



Corpus elongatum, angustatum, caudatum. (Type, Eurispa vittata.) 



