1905. ] ON NEW SPECIES OF PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 591 
The following descriptions of two new species of Coleoptera of 
the genus Homopheta were inadvertently omitted from Mr. Martin 
Jacoby’s paper supra page 399 :— 
HoMOPHETA ARGUS, sp. n. (Plate XIV. fig. 3.) 
Flavous, the antenne, knees, tibie, and tarsi black; thorax 
with a transverse black band; elytra not perceptibly ee 
each elytron with five round pale spots surrounded by a black 
ring. 
Length 6-7 millim. 
Var. Thorax without the black band. 
Head impunctate, the middie portion and the clypeus yellowish 
white, the vertex and the labrum black; antenne extending 
beyond the base of the elytra, black, the joints rather short ane 
robust, third and fourth equal. Thorax strongly transverse, the 
sides rounded, the anterior angles strongly thickened and produced, 
the surface impunctate, with a transverse narrow black band not 
extending to either margin. Scutellum black or piceous. Elytra 
ilavous, each elytron with five round pale spots, each spot sur- 
rounded by a black ring, and as follows—one at the base near the 
seutellum, one at the middle near the lateral margin, a third 
below the middle near the suture, and the others near the apex 
and joined together transversely ; apex of the femora, the tibie 
and tarsi black. 
Hab. Sao Paolo, Brazil, also Bolivia. 
This species must not be confounded with H. annulata Mlig., 
which it resembles somewhat in number and position of the 
elytral spots; but these in the present species are of different 
shape, round instead of transverse, always margined with black, 
and the subapical spots joined at their inner margins. In 
Gemminger’s Catalogue the name of Argus Chevr. 1. litt. is given 
once as a synonym of H. annularis Nl. and again as Oedionych. 
10-guitata Fab., but the species has evidently never been described. 
I, 4-notata Illig. is a variety of H. wquinoctialis Fab. None of 
these species has a black banded thorax like the present typical 
form. 
HoMoPH@TA ANGUSTOLINEATA, sp.n. (Plate XIV. fig. 1.) 
Below and the legs fulvous, above bright flavous, entirely 
impunctate, antenne dark fulvous, seutellum black; elytra with 
the extreme margins, a ring-shaped band at the sides and another 
transverse band near the apex, violaceous black or eeneous. 
Length 63-7 millim. 
Head entirely flavous ; antennz robust, entirely dark fulvous. 
Thorax transverse, the anterior angles prominent and thickened. 
Elytra shining; bright yellow, narrowly margined with purplish 
or violaceous, with a narrow transversely rounded similarly 
coloured band near the middle, nearly extending to the suture, 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1905, Vou. Ii. No. XL. 40 
