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regularly punctate-sti-iate, testaceous, the basal margin, a broad 

 sutural band, connected with a transverse band before the middle 

 .and extending downwai*ds, and the lateral margins narrowly 

 jeneovis. 



Length 12 millim. 



Head with a few very minute punctiu^es, dull aeneous ; antennae 

 black, the lower two joints fulvous below, the terminal joints 

 widened (the last two joints wanting) ; thorax twice as broad as 

 long, the lateral margins straight, the anterior angles acute, 

 pointed, the surface of the same colour as the head and similarly 

 sculptured, opaque ; elytra with their greatest elevation near the 

 base, punctured in very regular rows, the punctures rather elon- 

 gate in shape, piceous, the ground-colour flavous, the lateral 

 margins very narrowly and the sviture broadly dark feneous, the 

 base with a narrow seneous stripe extending to the middle of the 

 width of the elytra, followed by a broad transverse seneous band 

 which at each end curves downwards at right angles to below the 

 middle, this downward branch is rather suddenly constricted at 

 its middle ; underside and legs metallic seneous, shining ; meso- 

 sternal process moderately long and straight. 



Hah. Peru. (A single specimen.) 



DORYPHORA ECUADORIENSIS, Sp, nOV. 



Black, thorax closely and finely punctured ; elytra flavous, 

 strongly, closely, and irregailarly punctured, the suture greenish 

 black, a transverse spot at the shoulders of triangular shape, a 

 small sutural spot, another below the iTiiddle, and a curved elongate 

 stripe at the sides bluish black. 



Length 10 millim. 



Head closely and finely punctured ; antennae short, black, the 

 basal two joints flavous below, terminal joints gradually and but 

 little widened, the last joint long ; thorax black, with a slight 

 greenish tint, the anterior angles acute but not tuberculate, the 

 disc very closely punctured at the sides and the base, the punctures 

 of different size, middle of the disc sparingly punctate, the sides 

 with an obsolete depression ; scutellum triangular, greenish black ; 

 elytra rather pointed at the apex, flavous, very closely and strongly 

 punctured, especially so at the sides, the punctures of piceous 

 colour, irregu.larly placed with some indications of rows near the 

 sviture, the latter greenish black, the shoulders with a transverse 

 triangular spot, nearly connected with another smaU sutural spot 

 below the base, a curved elongate, posteriorly narrowed stripe at 

 the sides, and another small subsutural spot, both below the 

 middle, blackish ; underside and legs greenish black, the meso- 

 sternal process rather short. 



Hah. Ecuador. (A single specunen.) 



This is not a variety of D. instahilis Stal, which the species 

 resembles somewhat, as the elytral sculpturing as well as that of 

 the thorax are quite different. 



