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much stronger near the sides, entirely shining green, with a bronze 

 reflection ; scutellum impunctate. Elytra very widened from behind 

 the middle, everywhere irregularly and very finely covered with 

 punctures, the interstices having a scratched appearance, shining 

 green, with a coppery reflection. Body below of the same colour ; 

 metasternal process conical, slightly curved. 



Length 5i-6 lines. 



Hab. Peru. 



Two specimens in my collection. 



This species seems nearly to agree with Stll's description of his 

 D. nitidissima, but differs in the irregular and fine punctuation of 

 the elytra, and the smaller size as well as the colour of the antennae. 



15. DORYPHORA BISBIMACULATA, Sp. nOV. 



Ovate, moderately convex; head greenish, distinctly punctured, 

 labrum dark fulvous, mandibulse black ; first four joints of the an- 

 tennae testaceous, more or less stained with fuscous, the rest black, 

 and gradually increasing in width. Thorax with the middle of the 

 anterior margin straight, the posterior one rounded, and the sides 

 almost crescent-shape, and deeply depressed before the lateral mar- 

 gins ; surface on the disk finely and not closely, sides strongly and 

 deeply punctate ; the entire disk is occupied by a flavous patch, 

 leaving a narrow anterior and posterior margin, as well as the sides 

 to a greater extent, greenish black. Elytra scarcely wider at the 

 base than the thorax, parallel towards the middle, and slightly 

 widened behind, the surface irregularly punctate-striate, the striae 

 sometimes running in double rows, but near the sides the punctua- 

 tion is altogether irregular and confused ; the colour consists of 

 the same greenish tint as the head, slightly shining ; and each elytron 

 is marked with two large spots of a fulvous colour, of which one, of 

 a semiquadrate form, is situated a little before the middle, without 

 reaching either the lateral or the sutural margin ; another spot, of 

 a more triangular shape, is placed closer to the suture, near the 

 apex, being accompanied in some specimens by two more minute 

 spots near the lateral margin. Entire underside and legs black, 

 shining. 



Length (i lines. 



Hab. Chontales, Nicaragua. 



Collected by Mr. Janson. 



Genus Calligrapha, Chevr. 



16. Calligrapha distingtjenda, sp. nov. 



Oblong-ovate. Head with a fine but distinct longitudinal middle 

 line, epistome separated by a triangular groove from the front, 

 strongly punctate, vertex very sparingly punctured, brown ; labrum 

 fulvous ; mandibulae fuscous. Antennae with the first four joints 

 fulvous, the rest black ; they reach to a little more than the base of 

 the tliorax, and have the last five joints transversely subquadrate 

 and the extremity acute. Thorax with the lateral margins almost 

 parallel, a little wider at the base than at the apex, posterior margin 



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