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another discoidal band, narrowed anteriorly and posteriorly, as well as the extreme 

 lateral margin, piceous. Length, 4| lines. 



Head impunctate, testaceous ; antennse rather slender, the basal five joints 

 fulvous, the others black ; the three terminal joints distinctly longer than broad ; 

 thorax three times broader than long, the sides straight at the base, but slightly 

 rounded in front, the surface, with the exception of a few fine punctures near the 

 base, impunctate, pale fulvous ; elytra not widened towards the middle, finely 

 punctate-striate, the strise placed at irregular distances, flavous, the suture with a 

 piceous longitudinal band, extending to the first two rows of punctures, and strongly 

 narrowed at the base, the discoidal band placed between the fourth and seventh 

 strise, also narrowed at the base, and ending in an acute point near the apex ; the 

 lateral margin narrowly black ; under-side and legs testaceous ; the mesosternal 

 process moderately long, robust, and slightly curved. 



Bab. : ? 



This species, of which I possess a single specimen without locality, 

 resembles in the elytral pattern D.flavovittata, Stal, but differs in the 

 shape of the dark bands of the elytra, the space between the first 

 two rows of punctures and the third row is very broad, nearly double 

 the width of that between the first two rows, the following rows of 

 punctures are also placed at unequal distances, but the width of the 

 piceous bands and that of the flavous portion is nearly equal. 



DOKYPHORA BRUNNEO-LINEATA, 11. sp. 

 Obscure testaceous ; the terminal joints of the antennae black ; thorax strongly 

 transverse, finely punctured ; elytra very strongly geminate, punctate-striate, obscure 

 pale greenish, with four pale longitudinal brownish stripes. Length, 4| lines. 



Head with a few minute punctures ; antennae comparatively slender, extending 

 to the base of the elytra, black, the lower four joints testaceous ; ' thorax three times 

 broader than long, the sides strongly rounded before the middle, the anterior margin 

 straight at the middle, deeply obliquely emarginate behind the eyes, the posterior 

 margin slightly rounded, the surface very finely and irregularly punctured ; scutellum 

 impunctate, obscure testaceous ; elytra regularly convex, pale greenish-testaceous 

 with eight rows of deep and regular punctures (not counting the short subsutural 

 stripe), arranged in pairs, and another single row of punctures near the lateral 

 margin ; these double rows of pale brownish colour, the interstices impunctate, pale 

 greenish ; beneath and legs obscure testaceous ; the mesosternal process nearly 

 straight, short and robust. 



Hob. : Brazils, Santa Catharina. 



Closely allied to D. strigilata, Stal, but differing in the black 

 terminal joints of the antennse, the much more transversely shaped 

 and finely punctured thorax, and the deeper punctuation of the elytral 

 strise ; the sides of the thorax in D. brunneo-lineata are also more 

 strongly widened and rounded, but the elytral pattern is exactly 

 similar in both species. 



