1889.] COLLECTED IN VENEZUELA. 



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Herm^eophaga simoni, n. sp. 



Piceous ; the antennae (the terminal joints excepted), thorax, and 

 legs flavous ; elytra greenish aeneous, finely and semiregularly 

 punctured. 



Length |-1 line. 



Head piceous, im punctate, the vertex with a metallic seneous tint, 

 the space between the eyes more or less flavous ; the tubercles 

 obsolete, very narrowly transverse ; labrum black ; antennae closely 

 approached, extending beyond the base of the elytra, flavous, the 

 four terminal joints black, the basal joint narrowly elongate, second 

 short and thickened, the following two joints scarcely longer hut 

 more elongate ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides straight, 

 the anterior angles obliquely annulate, the posterior margin produced 

 at the middle into a rounded lobe, the surface with a deep transverse 

 groove near the base, slightly sinuate in shape and boundfd laterally 

 by a short longitudinal depression, beyond which the groove is ex- 

 tended at a little distance along the sides ; the disk entirely impunctate, 

 flavous ; scutellum small, black ; elytra convex, widened towards 

 the middle, the base with a very shallow obsolete depression, metallic 

 greenish or aeneous with a slight flavous tint, the punctuation fine 

 and close, more distinct at the base than towards the apex and ar- 

 ranged in somewhat regular rows near the base ; legs flavous ; pos- 

 terior femora strongly incrassate ; tibiae armed with a very minute 

 spine ; the first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the following 

 two joints together ; claws appendiculate. 



Caracas. 



HERMyEOPHAGA SUBCOSTATA, n. Sp. 



Metallic dark blue ; the three basal joints of the antennae flavous ; 

 thorax transverse, entirely impunctate ; elytra strongly and deeply 

 semipunctate-striate, the sides with one or two more or less distinct 

 longitudinal costae. 



Length Ij-lg line. 



Head broad, impunctate ; eyes very large ; the frontal elevations 

 distinctly raised, rather short and trigonate, the carina very short 

 and obscure ; labrum piceous ; palpi fulvous ; antennae half the 

 length of the body, black, the lower three joints fulvous, the basal one 

 stained with metallic blue al)ove, the third joint quite as long as the 

 fourth ; thorax strongly transverse, more than twice as broad as long, 

 the sides nearly straight, the anterior angles obHque, slightly thick- 

 ened ; the disk slightly swollen in front, with a very deep and sinuate 

 transverse groove near the base, bounded at the sides by another 

 perpendicular groove, beyond which the basal groove extends to a 

 slighter degree upwards along the sides, the surface entirely impunc- 

 tate ; elytra convex, with strongly impressed and closely placed rows 

 of pimctures, the sides with a short acute ridge commencing at the 

 shoulder and extending below the middle, this ridge much more 

 strongly marked in the female. 



Caracas. 



I think that this species is distinct from its many closely allied 



