268 MR. M. JACOBY ON COLEOPTERA [May 21, 
DESMOGRAMMA DECORATA, 0. sp. 
Obscure fulvous; terminal joints of the antennz black ; thorax 
remotely punctured; elytra regularly punctate-striate, flavous; a 
sutural band, divided anteriorly, the posterior part of the lateral 
margin, and two elongate markings before and below the middle, 
connected by a narrow stripe, brownish zeneous. 
Length 3 lines. 
Head with some fine punctures, fulvous, slightly stained with 
#neous ; antennz short, the five terminal joints widened, black, the 
others fulvous; thorax nearly three times as broad as long, the sides 
straight, the anterior and posterior margin nearly parallel; the disk 
rather strongly and irregularly punctured near the middle and at the 
sides, leaving a narrow central impunctate space, fulvous, with a 
slight metallic greenish tint; elytra flavous, with a narrow longi- 
tudinal sutural band of brownish-zeneous colour extending to the 
second row of punctures, and divided in front at each side of the 
‘suture into a short branch which does not extend to the base; a 
subquadrate large spot is placed directly below the base and con- 
nected at its inner margin by a narrow stripe with another sub- 
triangular spot placed near the apex; the posterior portion of the 
lateral margin is likewise brownish; below obscure fulvous, the 
legs paler; claws simple; the prosternum longitudinally raised 
between the anterior coxee. 
San Esteban. A single specimen. 
The elytra have the third and fourth rows of punctures interrupted 
before the apex, the fifth, sixth, and seventh rows slightly longer; 
the spots are of a greenish-zeneous colour. 
PLAGIODERA ORNATA, D. Sp. 
Pale fulvous ; the terminal joints of the antennze, the knees, and 
the tarsi black; thorax with a narrow central black line and two 
basal spots ; scutellum black; elytra semiregularly punctured, tes- 
taceous, the suture and six spots on each elytron (1, 2, 2, 1) metallic 
green. 
Length 2—23 lines. 
Head impunctate, depressed between the eyes; antenne black, 
the basal five joints fulvous ; thorax three times broader than long, 
the sides straight at the base, slightly rounded in front; the disk 
impunctate, with a narrow central black line from the base to the 
apex, the basal margin with two black spots; elytra testaceous, the 
punctures placed in irregular rows, a broader space in front of the 
lateral margin depressed, darker fulvous, and bounded by a row of . 
deeper punctures, the suture narrowly metallic green, this colour 
widened at the apex into a rounded spot; six other green spots 
placed as follows—a small one on the humeral callus, two larger 
ones placed transversely before and two others below the middle, and 
a single spot at the apex ; below and the legs fulvous, the knees and 
tarsi black. 
San Esteban. 
Of this handsome species two specimens were obtained. 
