270 MR. M. JACOBY ON COLEOPTERA [May 21, 
congeners, partly described under the generic name Diphaulaca, on 
account of the strongly punctured elytra and their lateral costa. 
HrrRMZOPHAGA HAROLDI, Nn. sp. 
Metallic green; antennze (the basal joints excepted) and tarsi 
black ; thorax broader than long, impunctate; elytra strongly 
punctate-striate. 
Length 14 line. 
Head impunctate, the frontal elevations very distinct and of longi- 
tudinal shape; the carina short and acute; antenne extending to 
rather more than half the length of body, the lower three joints 
fulvous, the first stained with black above, the third slightly longer 
and much thinner than the second, the others black ; thorax about 
one half broader than long, the sides nearly straight, the angles 
acute, the transverse basal groove very deep and curved at the middle, 
bounded by an equally deep lateral longitudinal groove, rest of the 
surface very shining and impunctate : elytra convex and very slightly 
widened posteriorly, the shoulders prominent, the base rather swollen ; 
the disk strongly and rather regularly and closely punctate-striate, 
the punctures more strongly impressed at the sides, where the inter- 
stices are also rather swollen ; the punctuation distinct to the apex. 
From Tolonia Tovar, Caracas (5 specimens). 
H. haroldi, although closely allied to several species described by 
von Harold under the generic name of Diphaulaca in his ‘ Coleopterol. 
Hefte,’ seems to differ principally in the strongly punctured elytra in 
connexion with the transversely-shaped thorax. I am in possession 
of most of the types of the author, all of which differ in this respect. 
HERMZOPHAGA NITIDICOLLIS, Ni. Sp. 
Below piceous; above metallic greenish zeneous ; the basal joints 
of the antennee and the tarsi obscure fulvous; thorax impunctate ; 
elytra finely and closely se:nipunctate-striate. 
Length 1 line. 
Head impunctate ; eyes very large; frontal elevations strongly 
raised, the carina long and very narrow; anterior margin of the 
clypeus swollen, perfectly straight ; antennze nearly as long as the 
body in the male, shorter in the female, piceous, the three basal 
joints obscure flavous, the third scarcely longer than the second but 
thinner: thorax about one half broader than long, the sides straight, 
the anterior angles oblique, forming a small tooth before the middle, 
the posterior margin with its median lobe slightly produced and 
rounded ; the surface with a deep and strongly sinuate transverse 
gooove near the base, bounded laterally by a not very distinct longi- 
tudinal groove, but continued beyond this in a more feeble degree 
along the sides of the thorax; the disk entirely impunctate and very 
shining ; elytra convex, with a scarcely visible depression below the 
base, finely but very closely and semiregularly punctured ; anterior 
tibize with a small spine. 
Caracas. 
Differing from H. nitidissima, Baly, in the dark greenish neous 
