2d8 MR. M. JACOBY ON COLEOPTERA [May 21, 



Desmogramma decorata, n. sp. 



Obscure fulvous ; terminal joints of the auteanse black ; thorax 

 remotely punctured ; elytra regularly punctate-striate, flavous ; a 

 sutural band, divided anteriorly, the posterior part of the lateral 

 margin, and two elongate markings before and below the middle, 

 connected by a narrow stripe, brownish aeneous. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head with some fine punctures, fulvous, slightly stained with 

 SBneous ; anteunse short, the five terminal joints widened, black, the 

 otliers fulvous ; thorax nearly three times as broad as long, the sides 

 straight, the anterior and posterior margin nearly parallel ; the disk 

 rather strongly and irregularly punctured near the middle and at the 

 sides, leaving a narrow central impunctate space, fulvous, with a 

 slight metallic greenish tint ; elytra flavous, with a narrow longi- 

 tudinal sutural band of brownish-Eeneous colour extending to the 

 second row of punctures, and divided in front at each side of the 

 suture into a short branch which does not extend to the base ; a 

 subquadrate large spot is placed directly below the base and con- 

 nected at its inner margin by a narrow stripe with another sub- 

 triangular spot placed near the apex ; the posterior portion of the 

 lateral margin is likewise brownish ; below obscure fulvous, the 

 legs paler ; claws simple ; che presternum lungitudiually raised 

 between the anterior coxae. 



San Esteban. A single specimen. 



The elytra have the third and fourth rows of punctures interrupted 

 before the apex, the fifth, sixth, and seventh rows slightly longer ; 

 the spots are of a greenish-seneous colour. 



Plagiodera ornata, n. sp. 



Pale fulvous ; the terminal joints of the antennae, the knees, and 

 the tarsi black ; thorax with a narrow central black line and two 

 basal spots ; scutellum black ; elytra semiregularly punctured, tes- 

 taceous, the suture and six spots on each elytron (1, 2, 2, 1) metallic 

 green. 



Length 2-2| lines. 



Head impunctate, depressed between the eyes ; antennae black, 

 the basal five joints fulvous ; thorax three times broader than long, 

 the sides straight at the base, slightly rounded in front ; the disk 

 impunctate, with a narrow central black line from the base to the 

 apex, the basal margin with two black spots ; elytra testaceous, the 

 punctures placed in irregular rows, a broader space in front of the 

 lateral margin depressed, darker fulvous, and bounded by a row of 

 deeper punctures, the suture narrowly metallic green, this colour 

 widened at the apex into a rounded spot ; six other green spots 

 placed as follows — a small one on the humeral callus, two larger 

 ones placed transversely before and two others below the middle, and 

 a single spot at the apex ; below and the legs fulvous, the knees and 

 tarsi black. 



San Esteban. 



Of this handsome species two specimens were obtained. 



