1878.] MR. M. JACOBY ON PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 147 



pear-shaped patch extending to nearly the middle of the length of 

 the elytra, fuscous brown ; a narrow light-flavous stripe accom- 

 panies the marginal and sutural one through its entire length. 

 Entire underside and legs fuscous brown. 



Length 5 lines. 



This species was discovered by Mr. Rippbn in Nicaragua. 



8. DoRYPHORA INSULAR1S, Sp. 110V. 



Ovate, regularly convex, above greenish black, with a submarginal 

 broad longitudinal vitta light testaceous ; head sparingly and finely 

 punctate, labrum fulvous ; antennae rather long, the last five joints 

 flattened and broad, of a greenish black colour ; thorax of the same 

 colour, throughout finely punctured with seven or eight deep punc- 

 tures parallel with the extreme lateral margin ; scutellum smooth, 

 triangular ; elytra slightly wider at the base than the thorax, punc- 

 tate-striate towards the suture, the rest of the surface confused- 

 punctate of a more or less dark shining green colour, interrupted 

 only by a broad longitudinal stripe of light testaceous colour com- 

 mencing a little below the shoulder and extending not quite to the 

 apex. This stripe runs parallel with the extreme lateral margin, 

 but has the inner margin concave a little before the middle, but 

 nearly straight thence to the apex. Underside and legs of a little 

 darker green, shining. 



Length 6| lines. 



Hab. Peru. 



Collection Jacoby. 



Genus Calligrapha, Erichs. 



9. Calligrapha violaceo-maculata, sp. nov. 



Oblong, convex ; head and legs ferruginous ; thorax and under- 

 side greenish, very shining ; elytra light flavous, the suture, three 

 transversely placed irregular spots at the posterior half, a median 

 one at the lateral margin, and an oblique, large, bifurcate mark con- 

 nected with the suture below the base, shining purplish ; another 

 short branch of the same colour is sent off from the suture below 

 the middle of each elytron ; head very sparingly and minutely punc- 

 tured, with a triangular-shaped mark at the back greenish aeneous; 

 antennae gradually thickened towards the apex, entirely ferruginous ; 

 thorax shining greenish, sides parallel at the base, rounded ante- 

 riorly, surface with a shallow fovea near each anterior margin, 

 minutely and sparingly punctate on the disk, with a few deeper 

 punctures near the base ; scutellum triangular, the sides a little 

 rounded, greenish black, smooth. Elytra wider at the base than the 

 thorax, of a bright yellow hue, punctate-striate near the suture, the 

 rest of the punctures only plainly visible within the darker mark- 

 ings, the suture broadly, the lateral margins narrowly, purplish ; the 

 first is greatly widened in the middle, and connected with an 

 obliquely placed two-branched mark below the base, and another, 

 shorter streak with an upward direction below the middle ; besides 



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