416 Mr. Vigors on some new subjects of Zoology, 



I found a single specimen of this insect in a very extensive 

 collection, sent to this country some time since from Rio Janeiro. 

 It is particularly distinguished by the singular and brilliant puce 

 or claret-brown colour of the thorax and elytra. I have since 

 observed a species in some abundance in a collection, formed by 

 my friend Mr. Such, in the neighbourhood of the same place, 

 ■which closely resembles it, differing only in the colour of the 

 thorax and elytra^ which are black. I have some doubt whether 

 my insect may not be a mere variety of the latter. 



I perceive that Count Hoffmansegg, in Wiedemann's Zoological 

 Magazine, I. i. 5. 15, has given the name of Macronota to the 

 genus Gymnetis of the " Horae Entomologicae." The latter name 

 must of course hold good, inasmuch as it was published long before 

 the other. 



HiEROGLYPHicA. G. uiru^ clypeo ihorace elytrisque glabris^ 

 ochraceiSf strigis interruptis nigris. 

 Tab. 15. f. 5. 

 Clypeus apice nigro, striga media longitudinali nigra. Thorax 

 strigis undecim nigris, media longitudinali, caeteris obliquis, qua- 

 tuor mediis angulariter confluentibus. Elytra strigis plurimis 

 nigris, humeralibus et apicalibus obliquis, mediis transversis, 

 omnibus in maculam mediam suturalem spectantibus. 

 Long. Corp. l. 

 Habitat in Brazilia. 

 In Mus. nost. 



Fam. RuTELiD^. Mac L. 

 Gen. Macraspis. Mac L. 

 ClAvata, Fab. M. olivaceo-cenea, nztida, glaberrimay elytris 

 palliiU aiirantiisj striis longitudinalibus 'vbfoletis. 

 Tab. 15. f. 6. 

 Cetonia clavata. Fab. Syst. Eleuth. 1. 151. 81. 



Oliv. Ins. 1. 6. 72. tab. 8. fig. 68. 



Caputj thorax, et scutellum glaberrimi, olivaceo-aenei. Antennce 

 nigrae. Pedes et abdomen olivaceo-asnei, punctis impressi. 

 Long. corp. 1 ^. 

 Habitat in Brazilia. 

 In Mus. Dom. iMac Leay, Such, nost. 



