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(Tab. IX. fig. 24) produced into several irregular teeth, sutural 

 angle armed ^^^th an acute spine ; above subdepressed, convex 

 on the sides ; each elytron with three costae, the first elevated only 

 at the base and apex, the second entire, more strongly raised, the 

 third less distinct ; interspaces deeply punctate -striate ; black, a 

 small patch on the outer half of the basal margin red. Beneath 

 shining black ; head, thorax, and anterior pair of thighs at the 

 extreme base, red ; legs slender, elongate, anterior tibiae in the 

 male armed near the apex with a short obtuse tooth. 



Hab. Peru. 



Collections of W. W. Saunders, Esq. and J. S. Baly. 



23. Cephalodonta laeta, n. sp. 



C. elongata, parallela, subdepressa, rufo-fulva ; antennis apice sub- 

 incrassatis, pieeis ; elyti'is apice obtusis, angulo postico in spinam 

 brevem aciitam productis, metallico-virichbus, linea suturali antice, 

 macula marginah postiee, vittaque lata, apice chlatata, rufo-fuMs. 



Long. S-g- lin. 



C. elongate, parallel, subdepressed along the back, bright rufo-ful- 

 vous ; antennae slender, subincrassate towards the apex, pitchy ; 

 elytra blight metallic green, the suture in front, an elongate mar- 

 ginal patch behind the middle, and a broad vitta on the disc, di- 

 lated at its apex, bright rufo- fulvous. Head smooth, jiroduced 

 in front into a small acute tooth ; antennae with the joints cylin- 

 • drical, second nearly twice as long as the first, four terminal 

 joints covered with adpressed fulvous pubescence, shorter than the 

 preceding, which are sparingly covered with long silky hairs. 

 Thorax scarcely broader at the base than long ; sides notched at 

 the extreme base, nearly straight behind, obtusely angled in the 

 middle, narrowed and subsinuate in front, anterior angles produced 

 obliquely into a stout subacute tooth, posterior armed with a 

 small recurved tooth ; above convex, indistinctly depressed trans- 

 versely on the hinder disc near the base ; surface closely covered 

 -with large coarse punctures, anterior margin impimctate ; in the 

 centre of the disc is an indistinct longitudinal groove ; basal mar- 

 gin grooved on either side. Scutellum smooth, impimctate. Elytra 

 broader than the thorax, subparallel ; sides margined, subsinuate 

 in the middle, posterior angles produced into a short, flattened, acute 

 tooth; apex (Tab. IX. fig. 25) obtusely rounded, apical margin 

 obliquely truncate, obsoletely curved ; above flattened along the 

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

 duced, their apex acute ; siirface deeply and regularly punctate- 

 striate, alternate interstices (especially near the sutiu'e) subcostate ; 

 bright metallic green, more obscure towards the apex, posterior 

 spine metallic green ; each elytron "with the suture in front, an 

 elongate patch on the outer margm below its middle, and a broad 

 vitta extending from the outer side of the shoulder do^vn the disc 

 nearly to its apex, bright rufo-fulvous. — the vitta, which just 



