1389.] COLLECTED IN VENEZUELA. 269 
HERMZOPHAGA SIMONI, 0. sp. 
Piceous ; the antennze (the terminal joints excepted), thorax, and 
legs flavous; elytra greenish eeneous, finely and semiregularly 
punctured. 
Length 3-1 line. 
Head piceous, impunctate, the vertex with a metallic ceneous tint, 
the space between the eyes more or less flavous; the tubercles 
obsolete, very narrowly transverse; labrum black ; antennz closely 
approached, extending beyond the base of the elytra, flavous, the 
four terminal joints black, the basal joint narrowly elongate, second 
short and thickened, the following two joints scarcely longer but 
more elongate ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides straight, 
the anterior angles obliquely angulate, the posterior margin produced 
at the middle into a rounded lobe, the surface with a deep transverse 
groove near the base, slightly sinuate in shape and bounded laterally 
by a short longitudinal depression, beyond which the groove is ex- 
tended at a little distance along the sides; the disk entirely impunctate, 
flavous ; scutellum small, black; elytra convex, widened towards 
the middle, the base with a very shallow obsolete depression, metallic 
greenish or zeneous with a slight flavous tint, the punctuation fine 
and close, more distinct at the base than towards the apex and ar- 
ranged in somewhat regular rows near the base; legs flavous; pos- 
terior femora strongly incrassate; tibiee armed with a very minute 
spine ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the following 
two joints together; claws appendiculate. 
Caracas. 
HERMAOPHAGA SUBCOSTATA, 0. sp. 
Metallic dark blue ; the three basal joints of the antennee flavous ; 
thorax transverse, entirely impunctate ; elytra strongly and deeply 
semipunctate-striate, the sides with one or two more or less distinct 
longitudinal costee. 
Length 13-13 line. 
Head broad, impunctate ; eyes very large; the frontal elevations 
distinctly raised, rather short and trigonate, the carina very short 
and obscure; labrum piceous; palpi fulvous; antenne half the 
Jength of the body, black, the lower three joints fulvous, the basal one 
stained with metallic blue above, the third joint quite as long as the 
fourth ; thorax strongly transverse, more than twice as broad as long, 
the sides nearly straight, the anterior angles oblique, slightly thick- 
ened; the disk slightly swollen in front, with a very deep and sinuate 
transverse groove near the base, bounded at the sides by another 
perpendicular groove, beyond which the basal groove extends to a 
slighter degree upwards along the sides, the surface entirely impune- 
tate; elytra convex, with strongly impressed and closely placed rows 
of punctures, the sides with a short acute ridge commencing at the 
shoulder and extending below the middle, this ridge much more 
strongly marked in the female. 
Caracas. 
I think that this species is distinct from its many closely allied 
