1889. ] COLLECTED IN VENEZUELA. 291 
The stripes of the elytra are often widened at their ends and often 
only indicated by spots. 
GALERUCELLA OBSCUROFASCIATA, 0. sp. 
Obscure pale greenish, opaque; antennz fuscous; head and 
thorax finely granulate; elytra finely pubescent, finely grauulate- 
punctate, with two longitudinal pale narrow bands joined at the 
apex. 
Length 11-2 lines. 
Head broader than long, finely granulate, longitudinally grooved 
at the middle, greenish ; antennze short and robust, the third joint 
the longest, the following joints of nearly equal length, the base of 
each joint pale ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides rounded, 
the posterior margin sinuate at the middle, the surface with a shallow 
lateral and central longitudinal depression, coloured and sculptured 
like the head, clothed with extremely short hairs ; scutellum broad, 
its apex truncate ; elytra extremely closely and finely punctured, the 
green colour interrupted by two narrow longitudinal pale bands, 
united at a little distance from the apex, the lateral margin also 
pale, clothed like the rest of the surface with short whitish pubes- 
cence ; legs pale greenish testaceous. 
Hab. Colonia Tovar. 
Closely ailied to G. alternata, Jac. (Biolog. Centr.-Amer.), but 
narrower and more parallel, the elytra more distinctly granulate and 
their design different in colour and pattern. 
GALERUCELLA FUSCOMACULATA, 0. Sp. 
Piceous, finely pubescent ; above obscure testaceous, clothed with 
yellowish hairs; thorax with depressions at the sides and on the 
disk, finely punctured ; elytra more distinctly punctured, obscurely 
spotted with fuscous at the base, the middle, and near the apex ; 
legs pale. 
Length 14 line. 
Head with a deep longitudinal groove at the vertex, the latter 
finely pubescent and punctured ; the clypeus smooth, transverse, and 
thickened; antennze short, distinctly thickened at the terminal 
joints, fuscous, the third joint the longest, the basal ones obscure 
fulvous ; thorax scarcely twice as broad as long, the sides scarcely 
rounded, the posterior angles oblique, the disk obscure fuscous or 
piceous, clothed with short yellow pubescence, finely punctured, 
broadly impressed at the sides and near the anterior and posterior 
margin at the middle; scutellum pubescent, its apex truncate : 
elytra more strongly and very closely punctured, clothed with 
yellowish pubescence, the basal portion, a small spot near the suture 
at the middle, and a larger spot near the apex, obscure fuscous ; at 
the middle of the base an elongate raised space is placed, a similar 
one is seen near the apex, the space in front of it is on the contrary 
depressed, and several other shallow depressions are situated near the 
lateral margin. 
San Esteban, Caracas. 
