1889.] COLLECTED IN VENEZUELA. 2()7 



DORYPIIORA PUNCTATISSIMA, Stal, 



A single specimen from San Esteban. 



DORYPHORA PURA, Stal. 



Sau Esteban and Colonia Tovar. 



DoRYPHORA MACULATA, Oliv. 



San Esteban. 



DoRYPHORA BLANDA, StSl. 



San Esteban. 



DoRYPHORA SIMONI, n. Sp. 



Obscure brownish aeneous ; thorax strongly transverse, the sides 

 with a few punctures only ; elytra flavous, very finely subgeminate, 

 puuctato-striate ; the margins, a deeply dentate transverse band at 

 the base (including a flavous spot), another band at the middle, 

 and two elongate spots near the apex, piceous. 



Length 4i lines. 



Of very rounded, strongly convex, and posteriorly deflexed shape ; 

 head, thorax, and the underside brownish, with greenish seneous re- 

 flections, the head finely punctured ; the labrum fulvous ; antennae 

 greenish black, the first joint fulvous, the third very elongate, the 

 following very short, the terminal five joints gradually widened ; 

 thorax at least three times broader than long, the sides very strongly 

 rounded and widened before the middle, the surface entirely 

 impunctate, with the exception of a few deep punctures at the sides, 

 the latter also with a round fovea ; scutellum impunctate, brownish : 

 elytra widened towards the middle, the anterior portion strongly 

 convex, the posterior greatly and rather suddenly deflexed ; the 

 disk very finely punctured, the punctures irregularly arranged here 

 and there in double rows, flavous ; the bands not extending to the 

 lateral but to the sutural margin, the basal one consisting of four 

 connected elongate spots, joined at the middle to the base so as to 

 enclose a round spot of the ground-colour near the scutellum ; the 

 second band placed at the middle, also composed of four confluent 

 spots, two other elongate spots near the apex, and a short streak 

 attached to the suture near the apex, as well as all the margins 

 narrowly, brownish piceous ; the mesosternal process strong, straight, 

 and moderately long. 



San Esteban ; a single specimen. 



DoRYPHORA FASCIATA, StSl. 



A specimen from San Esteban. 



Prosicela chevrolatii, Baly. 

 San Esteban and Colonia Tovar. 



Calligrapha percheroni, Stal. 

 San Esteban and Colonia Tovar. 



