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the seventh larger than the rest, trigonate, confluent with the 

 sntiire, and forming a large common triangular patch on the 

 posterior third of the elytra, its outer edge emarginate ; lastly, 

 the eighth, narrow and transverse, placed on the apical border. 

 Btneath rather paler; legs moderately robust, subelongate, anterior 

 pair rather longer than the others. 



Hah. Brazil. 



Collections of Major Parry, A. Fry, Esq., and J. S. Baly. 



14. Cephalodonta Sheppardi, n. sp. 



C. elongata, postice paullo ampliata, subdepressa, rufo-fidva ; elytris 

 angido postico in spinam vaKdam acutam extrorsum oblique pro- 

 ductis, apice obtusis ; metallico-viridibus, postice pallide i-ufo- 

 fuscis, utrisqiie maculis septem fiilvis. 



Long. 4 hn. 



C. broadly elongate, slightly dilated behind, subdepressed, rufo-fid- 

 vous ; elytra with the j)osterior angles produced obliquely out- 

 wards and slightly backwards into a flattened, slightly ciu^ed, 

 acute spine ; their apex obtuse ; bright metallic green in front, 

 pale rufo-foscous with a metallic reflexion behind ; each elytron 

 with seven large, badly-defined fulvous spots. Head smooth, pro- 

 duced in front into a short obtuse tooth ; antennaj elongate, 

 moderately robust, filiform, scarcely thickened at their apex, 

 joints cylindrical, second one-half longer than the fii'st, four ter- 

 minal joints short. Thorax scarcely broader than long, basal 

 margin grooved ; sides narrowly margined, notched at their ex- 

 treme base, obtusely angled in the middle, narrowed and sub- 

 sinuate in front, anterior angles produced into a stout obtuse 

 tooth, posterior armed ^vith a minute recurved tooth ; above sub- 

 convex, transversely impressed across the hinder disc ; sui'face 

 covered with large deep punctures, the anterior border and a nar- 

 row line down the middle of the disc impimctate. Scutellum 

 smooth, impunctate. Elytra broader than the thorax, rather 

 wider towards the posterior angles, the latter produced obliquely 

 outwards and slightly backwards into a large reflexed, flattened, 

 slightly cui'ved, acute spine ; sides margined, subsinuatc below 

 the shoulders ; apex obtiisely rounded, apical margin (Tab. IX. 

 fig. 16) obtuse, its edge indistinctly senate ; above flattened along 

 the back, convex on the sides ; shoulders prominent, -laterally pro- 

 duced, their apex armed with a short stout obtuse tubercle ; sur- 

 face deeply and regularly punctate-striate, alternate interstices 

 near the suture, and each interstice tow^ards the outer liorder in- 

 distinctly raised ; bright metallic green, rufo-fuscous with a faint 

 metallic reflexion behind the middle ; posterior spine bright me- 

 tallic green ; each elytron with seven fulvous spots, less distinctly- 

 defined than in the last species : the first basal ; the second below 

 the scutellum, forming a common subrotundate patch ; the third 



