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sides straight, the posterior angles oblique, the disc very finely 

 and iiTegularly jxmctured, flavous, with five black spots (2, 3), 

 those near the posterior angles larger and of transverse shape ; 

 .scutellnm broa^dly triangular, the base fuscous, clothed with fine 

 yellow hairs, the apex fulvovxs ; elytiu widened towards the middle, 

 very broad, of fuscous colovir, closely, strongly, and somewhat 

 rugosely punctui'ed, with five flavous longitudinal costfe on each 

 ■elytron, placed at equal distances, the first subsutural one short and 

 extending to the suture at its posterior end, the third and fourth 

 ■cost8e joined at the apex ; the femora and the rest of the under 

 side flavous, the sides of the breast and of the abdomen, the tibife 

 •and tarsi black, claws bifid. 



Hah. Cuernavaca, Mexico (Z)r. A. Fenyes). 



I only know two specimens of this species, one of which I 

 received from M. Clavareau at Brussels. 



Blbpharida multimaculata, sp. n. 



Fulvous ; thorax very finely and sparingly punctured ; elytra 

 dark fulvous or piceous, the sutvire more or less fulvous, closely 

 longitudinally costate, the interstices strongly punctured, the costse 

 with numerous small whitish spots. 



Length 4 millim. 



Head impunctate, fulvous ; antennae extending slightly beyond 

 the middle of the elytra, fulvous ; all the joints, with the excep- 

 tion of the second, elongate, the third slightly shortei- than the 

 fourth joint ; thorax of equal width, twice as broad as long, the 

 sides feebly rounded ; the surface covered with a few fine punctures, 

 irregularly distributed ; scutellum piceous ; elytra dark chestnut- 

 coloured or piceous, strongly and closely pvinctured in rows, the 

 interstices longitudinally costate, to the number of abovit ten on 

 each elytron, with numerous small round yellowish-white spots, 

 irregularly placed and difi"erent on each eljnbron ; legs flavous, the 

 sides of the breast blackish. 



Hab. Atlixco, Tepetlapa, Mexico. 



This species, of which I received several specimens some time 

 ago from M. Clavareau, was not known to me at the time of the 

 publication of the Biologia Centr.-Amer. ; it resembles greatly in 

 ■coloration several Eastern species, and must not be confounded 

 with B. marmorata Jac, likewise from Mexico, as in that insect 

 the elytra are not costate, the colour is black, and the spots much 

 fewer in number. 



Prasona peruviasta, sp. n. 



Greenish-testaceous, antennas fulvous, head with a black spot ; 

 thorax impunctate, ti"ansversely sulcate ; elytra closely punctured, 

 each elyti'on with two elongate spots at the base and a round one 

 at the apex, black. 



Length 7 millim. 



Head broad, impunctate, greenish, the vertex with a black spot ; 

 antennae about two-thirds the length of the body, pale fulvous, 



