1889.] COLLECTED IN VENEZUELA. 281 



as the body, entirely dark fulvous, the second and third joints short, 

 equal, the fourth joint longer than the two preceding united ; thorax 

 quadrate, slightly narrowed at the base, smooth, shining, green, the 

 disk bifoveolate ; scutellum black ; elytra closely and finely rugosely 

 punctured, the base, the extreme lateral margin, and the suture 

 narrowly pale flavous, the anterior portion of the suture below the 

 scutellum with a short black stripe ; at and below the middle a very 

 obscure flavous transverse spot is seen which in the variety is absent ; 

 the abdomen and the femora pale green, the tibise, tarsi, and the 

 breast black. 



Colonia Tovar. 



The two sexes of this species were taken in copula ; the female, 

 which is slightly larger than the male, has four more or less distinct 

 piceous spots placed transversely on the thorax ; the shoulders have 

 also a reddish-fulvous spot. The entirely fulvous antennae and the 

 differently marked elytra separate D. simoni from D. mutabilis, 

 D. (jemmbujeri, Baly, and other allied species, the smaller size and 

 the want of the black lateral vitta of the elytra, as well as the green 

 abdomen, from D. virginella, Baly. 



DiABROTICA FULVOFASCIATA, U. Sp. 



Pale flavous ; head, antennae, and thorax obscure fulvous ; elytra 

 pale greenish, with an obscure fulvous longitudinal band, finely and 

 closely punctured. 



Male. Antennae very strongly thickened and widened at the inter- 

 mediate joints. 



Length 2| lines. 



Head pale fulvous, the. vertex with a fovea ; labrum piceous ; 

 antennae extending to about half the length of the elytra, dark 

 fulvous, the second and third joints very short and equal, the fifth 

 to the ninth joints greatly dilated and thickened, the terminal one 

 narrowly cylindrical with a short appendage ; thorax scarcely one 

 half broader than long, narrowed at the base, obscure fulvous, the 

 lateral margins narrowly greenish, the surface impunctate with two 

 obscure longitudinal depressions ; scutellum piceous ; elytra closely 

 punctured, with an obsolete, longitudinal depression at the sides and 

 faint traces of longitudinal costae, pale greenish, the middle of the 

 disk occupied by an obscure pale fulvous band from the base to the 

 apex; femora pale greenish, the rest of the underside and legs 

 flavous. 



Caracas. 



The single male specimen contained in this collection agrees 

 nearly in coloration with B. porracea, Har., and several other allied 

 species, but is distinguished by the strongly dilated antennae and the 

 paler general colour ; the former character is also found in B. muta- 

 bilis, Baly, but this species differs totally in colour. 



DiABROTICA ESTEBANENSIS, n. Sp. 



Black ; the basal and the two penultimate joints of the antennae, 

 as well as the femora below, flavous ; head and thorax fulvous, the 



