194 MR. MARTIN JACOB Y ON NEW SPECIES [Mar. 4, 



This species differs from N. hrasiliensis and N. holiviana in the 

 flavous apex of the elytra and in its general smaller size, also 

 in the colour of the underside and legs. 



Nephrica paraguayensis, sp. n. 



Dark fulvous ; thorax with rounded sides, impunctate ; elytra 

 very closely and finely punctured, flavous, the basal and sutural 

 margin, a narrow transverse band before and another below the 

 middle, dark fulvous. 



Length 6 millim. 



Head finely punctured between the eyes, the frontal elevations 

 obsolete, the carina broad ; antennae fulvous, the third and fourth 

 joints equal ; thorax twice as broad as long, the sides strongly 

 rounded and broadly margined, the anterior angles obtusely 

 rounded, the surface impunctate, fulvous ; elytra closely and finely 

 punctured, flavous, the base with a narrow fulvous band extend- 

 ing to the shoulders, two other medially constricted bands, one 

 before, the other below the middle, extend across the elytra but 

 do not reach the lateral margins ; below and the legs dark fulvous. 



Hah. Paraguay. 



Two exactly similar specimens are before me, which resemble 

 greatly in their markings certain species of the genus Homophoe.ta. 



Nephrica inclusa, sp. n. (Plate XX. fig. 5.) 



Yellowish white, the antennae, tibife, and tarsi black ; thorax 

 impunctate, the sides straight ; elytra extremely finely punctiu-ed, 

 the basal and sutural margins, a transverse band before the middle 

 enclosing a basal spot of the ground-colour, and another trans- 

 verse band before the apex, reddish fulvous. 



Length 7 millim. 



Head yellowish white, impunctate, the vertex with a black 

 band ; the frontal tubercles, the labrum, and palpi black ; clypeus 

 very broad ; antenna? black, the third and fourth joints equal ; 

 thorax with the sides nearly straight, the anterior angles broadly 

 truncate, the surface impunctate, yellowish white; scutellum 

 black ; elytra extremely finely and rather closely punctured, pale 

 flavous, the base and a transverse band before the middle, con- 

 nected at the shoulders by a narrow longitudinal stripe, fulvous, 

 another narrow band below the middle and the suture narrowly 

 of the latter colour ; below and the legs flavous, the posterior 

 femora above and the tibiae and tarsi black. 



Hah. ? 



This species, of which I unfortunately do not know the locality, 

 but which is probably from Brazil, much resembles N. para- 

 gimyensis, but has nearly white upper and under sides, and the 

 thorax is of totally different shape, having straight instead of 

 rounded sides, the elytral punctuation also is much finer. 



Nephrica claveri, sp. n. (Plate XX. fig. 9.) 



Head, the underside, and the posterior femora black; the 



