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joints distinctly widened ; thorax strongly .transverse, the sides 

 rather strongly rounded before the middle, the anterior angles 

 pointed, the surface very finely and subremotely punctured, 

 fulvous, the entire sides occupied by a large subquadrate metallic 

 green patch ; scutellum fulvous ; elytra with deep but remotely 

 placed punctures arranged in double rows, the punctation much 

 finer towards the apex, flavous or pale fulvous, with a broad 

 transverse metallic green band at the base, not extending to either 

 margin, and another triangular broad spot below the middle ; 

 underside fulvous, stained with greenish feneoxis, legs entu-ely 

 fulvous, the mesosternal process rather short. 



Hah. Peru. 



The metallic green elytral patches are separated by the narrow 

 fulvous margins and at the middle by a slightly broader division 

 or fulvous band ; those of the thorax are divided at the middle 

 by a narrow, anteriorly widened fulvous band, the sides are 

 likewise more broadly fulvous. 



DORYPHORA HONDURAEXSIS, Sp. nov. 



Fulvous, the thorax with four green spots placed transvei'sely, 

 sparingly punctured ; elytra strongly punctate-striate, a strongly 

 curved transverse band at the base, another straight band below 

 the middle, and a spot near the apex metallic green. 



Length 12 millim. 



Head with a few minute punctures, fidvous ; antennae extending 

 to the base of the elytra, fulvous, the terminal joints thickened ; 

 thorax with the lateral margins strongly rounded anteriorly, the 

 angles acute, the surface sparingly but strongly punctured, fulvous, 

 with four black spots, placed transversely, two smaller ones at the 

 sides round and two larger elongate ones at the middle ; scutellum 

 fulvous ; elytra with rows of deep punctures which run in pairs 

 at the sides but single at the inner disc, the ground-colour fulvous, 

 at the base a strongly angulate band of green colour is placed in a 

 slightly oblique direction and not extending to either margin, 

 another band parallel to the first is situated below the middle and 

 a transverse spot near the apex ; underside and legs fulvous, the 

 m^esosternal process very short. 



Hah. Honduras, (A single specimen.) 



This species resembles in its system of coloration and pattern 

 D. viridifasciata Jac. (Biol. Centr.-Amer., Coleopt. vol. vi. pt. 1), 

 but differs in the entirely fulvous head and in the shape of the 

 first elytral band, which is almost semicrescentic, the other band 

 is also mvich naiTower, slightly angulate near the lateral margins, 

 and both are of slightly oblique direction. 



DORYPHORA ^NEOFASCIATA, Sp. nOV. 



Fulvous ; head and thorax finely punctured, each with four green 

 spots ; elytra geminate punctate-striate, flavous, a broad trans- 

 verse band near the base, curved upwards and including a flavous 

 spot and a transverse spot below the middle, greenish aeneous. 



