1902,] OP AMERICAN COLEOPTERA. 195 



antennae, thorax, and the legs flavous ; thorax impunctate ; elytra 

 extremely finely punctured, black, a transverse band before and 

 another one below the middle flavous. 



Length 6 millim. 



Head black, with a few punctures near the eyes, the frontal 

 tubercles and the carina acutely raised ; antennee extending to 

 the middle of the elytra, flavous, the basal three joints stained 

 with black above ; thorax of the usvial shape, the sides feebly 

 rounded at the middle, the surface impunctate, flavous, the base 

 with a rather well-marked transverse sinviate sulcus ; scutellum 

 black ; elytra extremely minutely punctured, black, with a slightly 

 curved flavous transverse band at the middle and another near 

 the apex, their epipleurse, the underside, and the posterior femora 

 black; the anterior legs, the posterior tibiae, and all the tarsi 

 flavous ; tibiee entire, not emarginate. 



Rah. Colombia, Ibague {Frere Claver), 



Of this very distinct species I received a specimen from Frere 

 Sebastien at St. Genis Laval, which was obtained by Frere Claver, 

 an ardent explorer of parts of Colombia. 



Nephrica staudingeri, sp. n. (Plate XX. fig. 11.) 



Flavous, the base of the head, the antennae and legs fulvous ; 

 thorax impunctate, flavous ; elytra dark fulvous, impunctate, a 

 round spot at the base, a transverse band at the middle, another 

 near the apex, and the lateral margins narrowly, flavous. 



Length 5 millim. 



Head with one or two deep punctures near the eyes, the vertex 

 piceous, the lower poi-tion flavous, frontal elevations obsolete, the 

 carina distinct ; labrum piceou.s ; the antennae dark fulvous, the 

 fourth joint slightly longer than the thii-d ; thorax with the sides 

 neai-ly straight, the anterior angles truncate bvit not produced, 

 the base with an obsolete transverse sulcus, the sui'face impunctate, 

 flavous ; scutellum flavous ; elytra entirely impunctate, dark 

 fulvous, each elytron with a round flavous spot at the base, a 

 slightly curved transverse band at the middle, and another one 

 near the apex, the lateral margins likewise very narrowly flavovis 

 as well as the outer margin of the elytral epipleurae ; below 

 flavous, the legs dark fulvous. 



Hab. Amazonia. 



This little species very much resembles Disonycha austriaca 

 Schauf., but the elytra ai-e fulvous, not black, and have flavous 

 lateral margins. 



Nephrica terminata, sp. n. 



Black, the thorax testaceous, impunctate, the disc black ; elytra 

 very finely and closely punctured, testaceous, the basal margin 

 ancl a triangular apical spot black. 



Length 5^ millim. 



Head impunctate, with the exception of a deep puncture near 

 the eyes, black, shining ; the base of the antennae and the clypeus 



