Pliytophagous Culeoptcra froiii Peru. b'll 



Head transversely impressed between tlie eyes, vertex smootli, 

 black, lower part of face testaceous, moutli piceous ; antennte 

 nearly as long as the body, the second and third joints short, of 

 equal length, the first three joints fiavous, the rest black, closely 

 pubescent. Thorax subquadrate, bifoveolate, impunctate, pale 

 green. Scutellum piceous. Elytra closely punctured, with an 

 obsolete short costa from the shoulder towards the suture, and 

 another longer one near the lateral margin ; pale green, with an 

 irregular shaped longitudinal streak much widened posteriorly, 

 and hollowed out at its interior margin, and another large round 

 spot near the apex, fuscous, these two spots are obsoletely con- 

 nected at their outer margin ; the suture is also narrowly 

 fuscous, slightly extending in width towards the apex. Under- 

 side very pale green, tibiae and tarsi piceous. 



