614 MB. MAETIN JACOBT ON NEW [NoT. 6, 



extending to the middle, and connected •with a transverse narrow 

 band below the middle, metallic violaceous. 



Length 3g lines. 



Head black, impunctate, frontal elevations piceous ; antennae 

 not extending to the middle of the elytra, black, third and fourth 

 joints equal ; thorax about twice and a half broader than long, 

 the sides strongly rounded and broadly flattened, the anterior 

 angles produced into a short tooth, the surface impunctate, flavous; 

 scutellum black ; elytra slightly widened towards the middle, 

 rather closely and strongly punctured, flavous, the basal margin, 

 the suture, a transverse narrow band below the middle, and an 

 equally narrow stripe near the lateral margin violaceous blue, all 

 these stripes are connected \nth each other; underside and legs 

 black. 



Hah. Brazil. 



IS'ot unlike (E. crucifera in design and colour, but the transverse 

 elytral stripe in that species is placed before, not below, the middle, 

 and the entire lateral margin is of a blue colour. 



CEdiontchis beatuxa, n. sp. (Clk. Catal.). 



Ovately rounded, short, piceous below ; vertex o£ head black ; 

 thorax flavous, impunctate ; elytra nearly impunctate, flavous, a 

 broad transverse band at the base and another equally broad one 

 at the posterior half dark violaceous. 



Length 2| lines. 



Head impunctate, the vertex nearly black, lower part of the 

 face flavous, la"j-um black ; antennae with slender joints, black, the 

 lower three flavous, third and fourth joints equal (last three joints 

 wanting) ; thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides but 

 moderately rounded in front, the anterior angles produced into an 

 acute point or tooth, the surface impunctate, flavous ; scutellum 

 black ; elytra strongly widened at the middle, almost impunctate, 

 the surface somewhat uneven, the anterior portion ^^"ith a broad 

 transverse violaceous baud not extending to the lateral margins, 

 its posterior edge rather rounded and not reaching quite to the 

 middle of the elytra, a narrow flavous band separates it from 

 another broad violaceous patch of similar shape not extending to 

 the apex nor the sides ; underside obscure piceous, posterior 

 femora and the abdomen of mottled appearance, partly obscure 

 fulvous. 



Uab. Amazons. 



The nearly impunctate elytra and the narrow flavous band 

 dividing the two darker ones at the middle will help to distinguish 

 this species from several nearly similarly coloured forms. 



(Ediontchis quadriplagiata (Clk. Catal.). 



Black, the head greenish black at the vertex ; thorax flavous, 

 nearly impunctate ; elytra finely punctured, flavous, with a trans- 

 verse bluish band at the base extending nearly to the middle, and 

 another band below the latter not extending to the apex nor the 



