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DORYPHORA BREVIFASCIATA, Sp. nO\^ 



Flavous, the antennae black, the head with two greenish-black 

 spots; thorax with a few fine spots, the base with a narrow 

 transverse greenish band ; elytra widened posteriorly, geminate 

 punctate-striate, a sutural band, narrowed posteriorly, the lateral 

 margins, and a short transverse band below the middle greenish 

 feneous. 



Length 9 millim. 



Head with a few minute punctures, flavous, the vertex with 

 two large subquadrate metallic green spots ; antenna? extending 

 beyond the base of the thorax, black, the terminal joints strongly 

 widened, the basal joints flavous below ; thorax of usual shape, 

 the surface with a few fine punctures, flavous, the base with a 

 narrow transverse, deeply concave band, not extending to the 

 lateral margins, dark metallic green ; scutellum metallic green ; 

 elytra wider at the base than the thorax, gradually widened 

 posteriorly, strongly geminate punctate-striate at the inner disc, 

 the sides irregularly punctured below the middle, flavous, the 

 suture with a metallic green band which is suddenly narrowed 

 below the middle, each elytron with a short transverse band at 

 the latter place not extending to either margin and the lateral 

 margins metallic green ; below and the legs flavous, the mesosternal 

 process shoi-t. 



Hah. Brazil. (A single specimen.) 



In coloration this species comes near D. jiicunda Stal, but in 

 the latter the head and underside are metallic a?neous, and the 

 elytral transverse band extends across the entire disc and is 

 placed higher up. 



DORYPHORA SPH^RICA, Sp. nOV. 



Subglobular, testaceous, the antenna and tarsi black ; thorax 

 strongly punctvired at the sides ; elytra strongly geminate punctate- 

 striate near the suture, irregularly punctured at the sides. 



Length 9 millim. 



Head very closely and finely punctured, labrvim testaceous, 

 apex of mandibles black ; antenna; with the terminal joints strongly 

 Avidened, black, the three basal joints flavous below ; thorax 

 somewhat narrowed anteriorly, the sides feebly I'ounded, the 

 anterior angles distinct, but not pointed or produced, the disc 

 convex, finely and sparingly punctured at the middle, strongly 

 and closely semirugose punctate at the sides ; scutellum smooth, 

 shining ; elytra very convex, deeply punctured in double and 

 treble rows at the inner disc, irregularly so at the sides ; underside 

 and legs pale fulvous, the tarsi black, the mesosternal process 

 very short. 



This is a species of almost subglobular shape, of which I un- 

 fortunately do not know the "habitat," and of which a single 

 specimen is contained in my collection ; there will be no difficulty 

 in recognising the species on account of the uniform coloration, 

 the black antennfe and tarsi, in connection with the shape. 



