1889.] COLLECTED IN VENEZUELA. 289 



sutural and lateral margin, a spot at the apex, and a narrow lateral 

 longitudinal stripe greyish white. 



Length 2 lines. 



Head somewhat broader than long, the vertex fuscous, finely 

 rugose and pubescent, the lower part pale greyish ; antennae only ex- 

 tending to the base of the elytra, black, the third joint the longest, 

 the intermediate ones slightly but distinctly widened ; thorax trans- 

 verse, short, the sides strongly rounded at the middle, the surface 

 transversely depressed, the depression more distinct at the sides, the 

 middle of the disk with a short longitudinal groove, the surface very 

 finely rugose and pubescent, of a pale greyish colour with the middle 

 of the disk more or less fuscous ; scutellum not longer than broad ; 

 elytra narrowly parallel, sculptured and pubescent like the thorax, 

 obscure fuscous, with the sutural and lateral margins very narrowly 

 grey, a similar coloured round spot placed at the apex and an obscure 

 narrow longitudinal stripe (sometimes extending to the base, but 

 always abbreviated posteriorly) at the sides ; legs pale testaceous, the 

 femora with a more or less distinct dark spot, and the apex of the 

 tibiae and tarsi fuscous ; underside piceous or nearly black. 



La Guaira. 



(S*. unistriata closely resembles S. apiculis, Clark, but seems to 

 difi"er in the paler colour of the thorax and that of the legs and in the 

 similar coloured elytral stripe at the sides ; the insect may possibly 

 be a local variety of Clark's species. 



LUPERUS MARGINATUS, n. Sp. 



Testaceous ; the upper j)ortion of the head and the antennae and 

 abdomen black ; thorax black, the sides narrowly flavous ; elytra 

 finely punctured, black, the lateral margins flavous. 



Length H hne. 



Head broader than long, black, the lower half testaceous ; the 

 vertex impunctate, deeply transversely grooved between the antennae ; 

 the frontal elevations transverse ; the clypeus thickened ; antennae 

 two thirds the length of the body, slender, black, the lower three 

 joints testaceous below, the third joint twice as long as the second 

 but shorter than the fourth joint ; thorax nearly twice as broad as 

 long, narrowed at the base, the sides rounded before the middle, the 

 surface very finely and rather closely punctured, black, very narrowly 

 margined with testaceous at the sides ; elytra finely and very closely 

 punctured and wrinkled, black, the lateral and apical margins 

 flavous, more broadly so than that of the thorax ; abdomen black ; 

 legs and breast flavous ; the tibiae with a minute spine, the first joint 

 of the posterior tarsi rather longer than the three following joints 

 together ; claws appeudiculate. 



Colonia Tovar, Three specimens. 



LUPERODES INORNATUS, U. Sp. 



Obscure testaceous ; antennae fuscous ; head vdth one, thorax 

 with four or five piceous spots ; elytra very finely and closely punc- 

 tured ; the extreme sutural and lateral margins piceous. 



