340 MB. E. SAUNDERS ON PABACUPTA AND CONOGNATHA. 



Head punctured, depressed in the middle. Thorax twice as wide as 

 long at the base; anterior margin elevated, and slightly produced 

 in the centre; sides slightly curved; posterior angles rounded; 

 base nearly straight ; surface punctured, with a faint dorsal line ; 

 each posterior angle with a deep triangular fovea. Elytra not quite 

 twice as long as wide ; sides slightly sinuate above the middle, swell- 

 ing out considerably behind it; apex of each finely emarginate; sur- 

 face punctate-striate, the interstices nearer the suture raised and 

 rounded. Beneath and legs punctured, slightly hairy. 



Length 9^ lines. Breadth 4 lines. 



Hab. Brazil. 



C. PARALLELA (fig. 19). Capite thoraceque ca;ruleo-viridibus ; elytris 

 flavis, maculis sex fasciaque ante apicem nigris ; subtus viridis, tribus 

 segmentis posterioribus ferrugineis. 



Head and thorax bluish green. Elytra flavous, with six black spots ar- 

 ranged in two irregular bands, three being just below the base, and 

 three others situated about the middle ; between these and the apex is 

 a wide black band ; the apex itself is also of the same colour. In the 

 basal row of spots the sutural one is very small, and the side ones 

 elongate ; in the median row the sutural spot is transversely oval, and 

 those at the sides are semicircular from the lateral margins. Beneath 

 bluish green ; apical segments testaceous. 



Head punctured, slightly depressed between the eyes. Thorax two- 

 thirds as long as wide at the base ; anterior margin elevated and 

 rounded in the centre, half as long as the base; sides rounded; base 

 nearly straight ; surface punctured ; dorsal region with a faint line, 

 which is elevated at its base, with a small depression on each side of 

 it ; there is also a fovea in each posterior angle. Elytra a little more 

 than twice as long as wide, finely punctate-striate ; sides subparallel 

 for not quite two-thirds of their length ; apex of each with two spines, 

 the outer one much the longer of the two. Beneath and legs finely 

 pubescent. 



Length 9 lines. Breadth 3 lines. 



Hab. Brazil. 



C. RUFiPES (fig. 20). Capite thoraceque seneis, hoc valde punctato ; 

 elytris striatis, ferrugineis ; subtus senea, pedibus testaceis. 



Head and thorax bronzy. Elytra ferruginous ; suture widely black, 

 the colour spreading behind the middle into a wide transverse band ; 

 between this and the apex is a second one, which is produced on its 

 upper margin in the middle of each elytron ; the apex is also black, 

 and is united to the second band along the posterior margin of the 

 elytra ; a black vitta extends from the base of each elytron almost to 

 the middle, when it suddenly turns at right angles, touching the lateral 



