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with the spots placed as follows : — one at each shoulder close to the 

 base, one surrounding the scutellum, four transversely placed before, 

 four others in a semicircle behind the middle, and two near the apex 

 close to the lateral margins. Underside fulvous, breast piceous. 

 Two specimens iu my collection. 



25. CEdionychis nigricollis, sp. nov. (Plate XVIII. fig. 10.) 



Ovate, convex. Piceous below ; tibise and antennas fulvous ; head 

 and thorax black, rugose punctate ; elytra fulvous, three trans- 

 versely placed spots before and four smaller ones behind the middle, 

 black. 



Length 2| lines. 



Hab. — ? 



Head longer than broad, deeply punctured at the vertex ; lower 

 part of face and the antennae fulvous ; third joint of the latter 

 longer than the fourth, the rest thickened gradually. Thorax 

 comparatively long, anterior angles produced into a short tooth, 

 sides flattened ; surface closely rugose-punctate and finely granulate, 

 black, with a greenish hue, the extreme lateral margins flavous. 

 Scutellum black. Elytra convex, deeply and closely punctate, 

 light fulvous or flavous, with part of the extreme base and the first 

 third of the sutural margin (the latter widened behind into a round 

 spot) black ; besides these marks each elytron has three other spots — 

 one transverse-shaped before the middle, between the lateral margin 

 and the sutural spot, and two behind the middle obliquely placed 

 and of smaller size, of which the inner one is placed close to the 

 sutural margin. Underside piceous ; inner edge of the posterior 

 femora and the tibiae and tarsi fulvous. 



Two specimens in my collection. 



26. CEdionychis godmani, sp. nov. 



Broadly ovate. Dark brown ; antennae obscure piceous, first 

 three joints flavous ; above flavous ; elytra finely punctate, a basal 

 transverse band and a large patch behind the middle on each 

 elytron dark brown. 



Length 3|-4 lines. 



Hab. Costa Rica and Chontales (Nicaragua). 



Head with a fine longitudinal groove at the vertex, the latter 

 impunctate dark brown ; lower part of face flavous ; encarpsc but 

 little raised ; carina short, swollen ; antennae reaching to one third 

 the length of the body, first joint much thickened, of almost equal 

 size, second joint one third shorter than the third, the rest 

 pubescent. Sides of thorax much rounded, anterior angles thickened 

 and produced in shape of a short tooth ; surface impunctate, flavous. 

 Elytra closely punctate, the punctuation diminishing towards the 

 apex, flavous, the base being occupied by a broad dark brown band 

 which does not touch the lateral margins, while a large round patch 

 of the same colour is situated behind the middle, leaving the lateral 

 margin and apex of the ground-colour. Entire underside and legs 

 dark brown. 



