128 CEPHALOBOXTA. 



pressed ■with ten rows of large, deep, regularly placed punctures, 

 their interstices towards the apex slightly costate. Body beneath 

 shining black ; head, thorax, thighs and tibiae fulvous ; anterior 

 tibiiio in the male armed near their apex ■with a short acute spine ; 

 legs short, moderately robust, front pair- not elongate. 



Hah. Columbia. 



Collections of Major Parry and J. S. Baly. 



c. Corpua late flotif/aiiDit, suhdcjiressum : ante)inis robustis, artieiilis quatuor 

 nUimis eloiif/ah's ; elytris (tpicc ohtlqne tnincafis ant ohtnsis, aiiffulo pos- 

 tico spiim validd armatis, humeris lateraliter j)roductis, plus minusve ele- 

 ratis. 



7. Cephalodonta coccinea, Guer. Tab. IX. Fig. 2. B.M. 



Cephalodonta coccinea, Guer. Icon, du Regne Anim. Texte, p. 276. 



C. oblongo-elongata, postice paullo ampliata, subdepressa, sangiiinea; 

 elytiis apice (Tab. IX. fig. 11) oblique truncatis, angulo postico 

 spina valida armatis ; humens lateraliter productis, \ix elevatis ; 

 nigris, utiisque maculis quinqiie sanguincis. 



Long. 3| Un. 



Hah. Cayenne ; Amazons. 



British Museum, and collections of W. W. Saunders, Esq., E. 

 She^jpard, Esq , and J. S. Baly. 



8. Cephalodonta conicicollis, n. sp, 



C. late elongata, dorso depressa, rnfa ; thoracis vittis tribus elytrisque 

 obscure metallico-\-iridibus, his angulo postico in spinam validam 

 acutam productis, humeris valde elevatis^ apice tnincatis, utrisque 

 maculis octo rufo-fuhis ; thorace conico. 



Long. 4 lin. 



C. elongate, flattened along the suture ; bright nifous; tlu'ec longi- 

 tudinal stripes on the thorax and the elytra dark metaUic green, 

 the latter each with eight bright rufo-fulvous spots. Head smooth, 

 obsoletely angled in front, impressed on the vertex with an oblong 

 fovea ; antennae scarcely more than half the length of the body, 

 moderately robust, slightly incrassate towards theii* apex ; joints 

 cylindrical, second one-half longer than the first, fifth and two 

 following short, submoniliform ; last foiu* elongate, opaque, together 

 forming half the length of the antennae. Thorax narrowed from 

 the base to the apex, conic ; sides obsoletely sinuate behind, ante- 

 i-ior angles produced into a stout subacute tooth ; above subcon- 

 vex, slightly flattened on the (hsc ; surface shining, deeply punc- 

 tured, punctimng on the sides subrugose ; bright rufo-fulvous, a 

 marginal ^■itta, and another down the centre of the disc, dark 

 metallic green. Pcutellum smooth, impimctate. Elytra broader 

 than the thorax, indistinctly dilated towards the posterior angles, 

 the latter produced obliquely outwards into a large, flattened, 

 slightly acute, curved spine, its outer edge thickened, the inner 



