1889.] COLLECTED IN VENEZUELA. 289 
sutural and lateral margin, a spot at the apex, and a narrow lateral 
longitudinal stripe greyish white. 
Length 2 lines. 
Head somewhat broader than long, the vertex fuscous, finely 
rugose and pubescent, the lower part pale greyish ; antennze only ex- 
tending to the base of the elytra, black, the third joint the longest, 
the intermediate ones slightly but distinctly widened ; thorax trans- 
verse, short, the sides strongly rounded at the middle, the surface 
transversely depressed, the depression more distinct at the sides, the 
middle of the disk with a short longitudinal groove, the surface very 
finely rugose and pubescent, of a pale greyish colour with the middle 
of the disk more or less fuscous ; scutellum not longer than broad ; 
elytra narrowly parallel, sculptured and pubescent like the thorax, 
obscure fuscous, with the sutural and lateral margins very narrowly 
grey, a similar coloured round spot placed at the apex and an obscure 
narrow longitudinal stripe (sometimes extending to the base, but 
always abbreviated posteriorly) at the sides; legs pale testaceous, the 
femora with a more or less distinct dark spot, and the apex of the 
tibize and tarsi fuscous; underside piceous or nearly black. 
La Guaira. 
S. unistriata closely resembles S. apicalis, Clark, but seems to 
differ in the paier colour of the thorax and that of the legs and in the 
similar coloured elytral stripe at the sides ; the insect may possibly 
be a local variety of Clark’s species. 
LuprEerus MARGINATUS, 0. Sp. 
Testaceous ; the upper portion of the head and the antennz and 
abdomen black ; thorax black, the sides narrowly flavous; elytra 
finely punctured, black, the lateral margins flavous. 
Length 1} line. 
Head broader than long, black, the lower half testaceous ; the 
vertex impunctate, deeply transversely grooved between the antenne ; 
the frontal elevations transverse ; the clypeus thickened ; antennze 
two thirds the length of the body, slender, black, the lower three 
joints testaceous below, the third joint twice as long as the second 
but shorter than the fourth joint; thorax nearly twice as broad as 
long, narrowed at the base, the sides rounded before the middle, the 
surface very finely and rather closely punctured, black, very narrowly 
margined with testaceous at the sides ; elytra finely and very closely 
punctured and wrinkled, black, the lateral and apical margins 
flavous, more broadly so than that of the thorax ; abdomen black ; 
legs and breast flavous ; ; the tibize with a minute spine, the first joint 
of the posterior tarsi rather longer than the three following joints 
together ; claws appendiculate. 
Colonia Tovar. Three specimens. 
LUPERODES INORNATUS, 0. Sp. 
Obscure testaceous; antennz fuscous; head with one, thorax 
with four or five piceous spots; elytra very finely and closely punc- 
tured ; the extreme sutural and lateral margins piceous. 
