224 Mr. J. S. Baly on some 



lateral! a basi ad medium, fascia lata prope medium, altera ante 

 apicem limboque inflexo pallide flavis. 

 Long. 4-5 lin. 



Hah. Brazil. 



Head short, trigonate ; vertex and front coarsely punctured 

 on the sides ; encarpae transverse, bounded above by a deep de- 

 pression ; carina ill defined, broad, trigonate, terminating below 

 on the usual transverse ridge; eyes rotundate, ovate, not sinuate 

 within ; antennae about half the length of the body, filiform, 

 the second joint ovate, the third and fourth equal, each more 

 than half the length of the second ; three lower joints flavous, 

 the rest black. Thorax nearly three times as broad as long ; 

 sides broadly dilated, reilexed, parallel at the base, thence 

 rounded and converging to the apex, the latter armed with an 

 obtuse, very slightly excurved tooth ; disk very minutely and 

 distinctly punctured, faintly impressed in front of the basal 

 margin with an ill-defined transverse groove, also indistinctly 

 sulcate on either side just behind the apical margin ; dilated 

 margin concave, its surface irregular. Scutellum regularly 

 trigonate, shining black, its surface granulose. Elytra broader 

 than the thorax, ovate, slightly dilated posteriorly, closely 

 and deeply punctured, lateral margin narrowly dilated, reflexed. 

 Hinder claw strongly thickened, nigro-piceous. Prosternum 

 narrow, elongate, its apex subspatulate. 



GEdionychis elegans. 



CE. late ovata, couvexa, pallide rufo-picea, nitida, an tennis extror- 

 sum nigris ; elytris cyaneo-nigris, sat fortitcr puuctatis ; utrinque 

 vittis duabus latis, basi et apice conjunctis, prima submarginali, 

 secunda discoidali, a basi ad medium intus curvata, hinc ad api- 

 cem ad suturam parallela, flavis ornatis. 



Long. 3 lin. 



Ilah. Bahia. Collected by Mr. Edwin Reed. 



Head trigonate ; vertex smooth, impunctate ; front exca- 

 vated above the encai-pae, impressed with large round punc- 

 tures; encarp^ subquadrate ; carina ill defined, wedge-shaped ; 

 antennae scarcely half the length of the body, the second 

 joint ovate, the third, fourth, and fifth nearly equal, the two 

 latter rather longer than the third, the sixth and five following 

 joints shorter, each nearly equal in length to the third, the five 

 upper ones slightly thickened, black. Thorax three times as 

 broad as long ; sides broadly dilated, straight and nearly 

 parallel from the base to beyond the middle, thence rounded 

 and converging to the apex ; apical angle thickened, armed 

 witli a short, excurved, acute tooth ; upper surface finely but 



