APPENDIX. 1()7 



lateral border canaliculate in front. Scntellum smooth, shininc; 

 black. Elji;ra much broader than the thorax ; sides parallel, 

 narrowly margined ; apex obtusely rounded ; above subconvex, 

 slightly flattened along the sutm'e ; each elytron with eleven 

 rows of distinct shallow punctures, the first abbreviated ; bright 

 yellow, a small spot on the humeral caUus, and a large common 

 subovate jDatch immediately beliind the middle of the suture, nigro- 

 piceous. Beneath nigro-piceous, legs and abdomen fulvous, the 

 latter stained with piceous. 



Female. Apical segment of abdomen beneath broadly truncate- 

 emarginate (Tab. III. fig. 43). 

 Hab. Caraccas. 



Nearly allied to C. pretiosa. A single specimen in the cabinet of 

 M. Salle. 



Page Q2. — Cephaloleia opaca. 



By an unfortixnate accident, the character of the anal segment of 

 a totally different species was inserted in place of the tnie one ; this 

 error was not discovered until too late for alteration in the body of 

 the work. It becomes necessary, therefore, to erase the present 

 description, and to insert the following : — 



Foem. Abdominis segmento anali bisinuato. 



Page 68.— Spec. (i. Demotispa Sallei, n. sp. 



D. ovata, subdepressa, Isete cyanea ; antennis nigris. 

 Long. 2 lin. 



B. ovate, subdepressed above, bright metaUic blue ; antenna) black. 

 Head canaliculate down the front, distinctly punctured. Thorax 

 twice as broad as long ; sides narrowly margined, regularly 

 romided and narrowed from the base to the apex ; anterior margin 

 broadly excavated ; above subconvex. finely but not very closely 

 punctm-ed ; disc vnih. six distinct foveoe, foiu- placed transversely 

 immediately behind, and two jiLst before the middle. Elytra 

 rather broader than the thorax, subconvex on the sides, flattened 

 along the suture, subsinuate below the shoulders ; sides subparallel, 

 narrowly margined ; apex obtusely roimded, conjointly emarginate 

 at the sutiu'e ; each elytron with eleven rows of distinct punc- 

 tures, the first abbreviated. Beneath shining metallic blue ; 

 abdomen distantly pimctured, l)asal segment impressed on either 

 side with a large deep fovea. 



Hah. St. Domingo. 



Unique in the collection of M. Salle. 



Page 80. — Arescus monoceros. 

 M. Salle has kindly re-examined the tj'pe-spccimen of Uli^•i(■r, 



