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The individual described is no doubt a female : the front and 

 middle tarsi are rather slender ; but the hind ones are stout, and 

 their basal joint is much thickened and produced at the extremity 

 on the upperside ; the front tibiae are rather stout, their two 

 lower teeth very large, and the upper one quite distinct. The 

 hind legs are short but thick, their tibise much broader at the ex- 

 tremity and very coarsely punctured externally. 



Cyclocephala conspicua, n. sp. Rubra, fere nuda ; eapite^ pectoris 

 lateribus pedibusque nigris ; thorace vittis duabus, elytris lateribus, 

 fascia lata basaU alteraque pone medium interrupta nigris. Long. 

 17 h miUim. 



Head entirely black, rather coarsely punctured ; clypeus short and broad, 

 21 millims. broad in the middle, If miUim. long, its front margin 

 nearly straight, being only very slightly emarginate in the middle. 

 Thorax bright red, with a black elongate mark on each side the 

 middle, rather sparingly but coarsely punctured, except on the 

 middle, where the punctures are finer. Scutellum red, with a few 

 indistinct punctures. Elytra broadly black at the base, also black at 

 the sides, and behind the middle with a very large transverse black 

 mark which does not reach the suture, but is joined to the lateral 

 black. They are modei-ately closely, but not deeply, punctured ; and 

 the punctures leave only very indistinct traces of longitudinal spaces. 

 Pygidium and hind body, as well as the middle of the metasternum, 

 red. Prosternal process closely applied to the coxae ; when its apex 

 is looked at, it appears to consist of two parts, viz. an anterior part, 

 and a posterior part, which is crescentic and fringed behind with long 

 hairs. In the male the front tarsi are a good deal thickened, the 

 punctuation of the elytra is much finer than in the female, the pygi- 

 dium is larger, and is nearly entii-ely rugose, while in the female its 

 sculpture is much less. The female has on the edge of each elytron, 

 behind the middle, a very small prominence. 



This species is allied to the Mexican C. picfa, Burm. ; but the 

 markings on the elytra are very different, and the clypeus is rather 

 more developed. 



C. PROBA, n. sp. Transversim convexa, picea, nitida, supra nuda ; tho- 

 race elytris angustiore, lateribus pone medium subsinuatis, parce 

 punctato ; elytris fortiter punctato-striatis, punctis ocellatis : pygidio 

 nitido, fortiter punctato. Long. 17-20 millim. 



Clypeus broad and short, 3 miUiras. broad across the middle, 1 § millim. 

 long, its front margin very slightly emarginate in the middle, the front 

 angles greatly rounded, rather closely but indistinctly punctured, the 

 punctures obsolete towards the front. Thorax 5^ millims. long, 71 



