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and irregularly punctured at the flavous portion, the dark 

 markings also surrounded or bounded by deeper punctures, the 

 suture, to the extent of the second row of punctures, black, in 

 shape of a narrow, anterioily widened stripe which does not quite 

 extend to the base ; of the dark markings three short longitudinal 

 slightly curved stripes are placed at the base, of which the inner 

 two are joined at the apex, these stripes do not extend to the 

 basal margin but the inner ones nearly reach the middle, they 

 are followed by a crescent-shaped narrow band at the sides, 

 within which a smaller nearly ring-shaped mai-k is placed, near 

 the apex another V-shaped spot is situated, at the middle of the 

 lateral margins there is another smaller black spot, and the elytra! 

 epipleuras ai^e of the same colour ; the abdomen and the legs are 

 fulvous ; claws united at the base. 



Hah. Costa Rica. (In my collection and that of the British 

 Museum.) 



The peculiar elytral markings differ from those of any other 

 species of the genus ; the flavous ground-colour has a golden hue, 

 which is probably more brilliant in the living insect. 



Zyqogramma brasiliexsis, sp. nov. 



Reddish fulvous ; thoiax strongly punctured at the sides, 

 minutely at the disc ; elytra finely punctate-striate, black, the 

 third, fifth, and the ninth and tenth interstices, as well as the 

 epipleurse, flavous, the two inner flavous stripes connected at 

 the apex. 



Length 6 millim. 



Closely allied to Z. flavolorata Stal and Z. onyops Stal, and to a 

 few other species with flavous elytral stripes and epipleurse, but 

 at once distinguished fi'om them by the fulvous head, thoi-ax, and 

 legs ; the head impunctate ; antennte short, fulvous, the apical five 

 joints black, strongly transverse ; thorax strongly transverse, closely 

 and strongly punctured at the sides, fulvous, the basal margin 

 sometimes piceous ; scutellum black ; elytra finely and regularly 

 punctate-sti'iate, the basal margin and three narrow longitudinal 

 stripes flavous, the discoidal ones joined near the apex, occupying 

 the third and fifth intei'stices, the outer stripe with a row of 

 punctures, the extreme lateral margins black, the epipleui'ee 

 flavous. 



Hah. Espirito Santo, Brazil. 



Three exactly similar specimens are contained in my collection. 



Zygogramma burmeisteri, sp. nov. 



Greenish black ; thorax narrowed anteriorly, strongly punctured 

 at the sides ; elytra striate-punctate, the intei-stices slightly 

 convex, the base of the first, the third and fifth entirely, and the 

 tenth flavous. 



Length 7 millim. 



Head very minutely pvinctured ; antennre with short, transverse 

 tei-minal joints, broader than long, black, the basal two or tlu-ee 



