1889. ] COLLECTED IN VENEZUELA. 281 
as the body, entirely dark fulvous, the second and third joints short, 
equal, the fourth joint longer than the two preceding united ; thorax 
quadrate, slightly narrowed at the base, smooth, shining, green, the 
disk bifoveolate ; scutellum black ; elytra closely and finely rugosely 
punctured, the base, the extreme lateral margin, and the suture 
narrowly pale flavous, the anterior portion of the suture below the 
scutellum with a short black stripe ; at and below the middle a very 
obscure flavous transverse spot is seen which in the variety is absent ; 
the abdomen and the femora pale green, the tibiee, tarsi, and the 
breast black. 
Colonia Tovar. 
The two sexes of this species were taken in copuld ; the female, 
which is slightly larger than the male, has four more or less distinct 
piceous spots placed transversely on the thorax; the shoulders have 
also a reddish-fulvous spot. The entirely fulvous antenne and the 
differently marked elytra separate D. simoni from D. mutabilis, 
D. gemmingeri, Baly, and other allied species, the smaller size and 
the want of the black lateral vitta of the elytra, as well as the green 
abdomen, from D. virginella, Baly. 
DIABROTICA FULVOFASCIATA, Nl. Sp. 
Pale flavous ; head, antennz, and thorax obscure fulvous ; elytra 
pale greenish, with an obscure fulvous longitudinal band, finely and 
closely punctured. 
Male. Antennee very strongly thickened and widened at the inter- 
mediate joints. 
Length 22 lines. 
Head pale fulvous, the, vertex with a fovea; labrum piceovs ; 
antennee extending to about half the length of the elytra, dark 
fulvous, the second and third joints very short and equal, the fifth 
to the ninth joints greatly dilated and thickened, the terminal one 
narrowly cylindrical with a short appendage ; thorax scarcely one 
half broader than long, narrowed at the base, obscure fulvous, the 
lateral margins narrowly greenish, the surface impunctate with two 
obscure longitudinal depressions ; scutellum piceous; elytra closely 
punctured, with an obsolete, longitudinal depression at the sides and 
faint traces of longitudinal coste, pale greenish, the middle of the 
disk occupied by an obscure pale fulvous band from the base to the 
apex; femora pale greenish, the rest of the underside and legs 
flavous. 
Caracas. 
The single male specimen contained in this collection agrees 
nearly in coloration with D. porracea, Har., and several other allied 
species, but is distinguished by the strongly dilated antenne and the 
paler general colour; the former character is also found in D. muta- 
bilis, Baly, but this species differs totally in colour. 
DIaBROTICA ESTEBANENSIS, 0. Sp. 
Black ; the basal and the two penultimate joints of the antenns, 
as well as the femora below, flavous; head and thorax fulvous, the 
