CEPHALODONTA. 147 



tellum, forming, with the one on the opposite elytron, a large 

 anchor-shaped patch ; the apex also black. Body beneath shining 

 black ; head, thorax, centre of the breast, and the base of the 

 anterior thighs, fulvoiLS ; legs moderately robust, elongate, anterior 

 jDair scarcely longer than the others, anterior tibiae armed towards 

 their apex with a short acute spine, the apex itself covered with 

 bright fiilvous hairs ; all the thighs slightly incrassate. 



Hah. Peru. 



Unique in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



31. Cephalodonta pulchella, n. sp. B.M. 



C. elongata, paraUela, leniter convexa, dorso subdepressa, rufo-fulva ; 

 antennis nigris ; elytris metaUico-viiidibus, utrisque maculis 

 quinque, superficiem fere amplectentibus, folvds. 



Var. A. Elytrorum maculis intermediis confluentibus. 

 Long. 4-4i lin. 



C. elongate, parallel, moderately convex, subdcpressed along the 

 back, rufo-fiilvous ; antennae black ; elytra bright metallic green, 

 each with five large fulvous spots which nearly cover their whole 

 siu'face. Head smooth, produced between the antennae into an 

 acute tooth ; front impressed with a shallow fovea ; antennae 

 slender, fii'st joint short, submoniliform, second more than foiu' 

 times its length, narrowed towards its apex, intermediate joints 

 subcyhndrical. Thorax scarcely longer than broad at the base ; 

 sides gradually increasing in width from their base to the middle, 

 which is indistinctly angled, narrowed and subsinuate in front, 

 interior angles produced, subacute ; apical margin slightly pro- 

 duced, its middle indistinctly angled; above subconvex, trans- 

 versely impressed behind the middle, closely punctured, punc- 

 turing less crowded in front. Scutellum smooth, impim^ctate. 

 Elytra wider than the thorax, elongate ; sides parallel, narrowly 

 margined, posterior angles produced into a small acute tooth; 

 apical margin (Tab. IX. fig. 33) obtuse, its border finely serrate ; 

 above subconvex, flattened along the suture ; each elytron with 

 four distinctly raised costae, the sutiu'e also elevated ; interspaces 

 impressed with a double row of deep punctures ; dark metallic 

 green, each elytron with five large fulvous spots, covering nearly 

 the whole of the siu-face : the first at the base within the 

 shoulders, subtrigonate ; the second oblique, extending from the 

 humeral angle nearly to the centre of the suture ; the next two 

 placed just below the middle, parallel, the outer one narrow and 

 marginal, the other ovate, just touching the sutui'al margin ; the 

 fifth smaller than the rest, subapical. Below bright rufo-fulvous, 

 tarsi and apical half of abdomen more obscure. 



Var. A. Intermediate spots on the elytra confluent. 



Hah. Santarem ; Ega ; Upper Amazons. Collected by Mr. Bates. 

 British Museum, and collection of J. S. Baly. 



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