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flavous portion sejjarating both bands is slightly widened at the 

 suture, the extreme latei-al niai-gins and a small triangular space 

 at the apex are of the ground-colour ; the under side and legs 

 are dark fulvous or piceous, and the posterior femora have the 

 apex broadly stained with blackish. 0. steinheili Jac. is a much 

 broader insect with a differently shaped thorax. 

 Hah. Amazons. 



Oedionychis fulvotibialis, sp. n. 



Obscure piceous below, the clypeus, antenna?, and the tibife 

 more or less fulvous ; thorax flavous, impunctate ; elytra closely 

 and finely punctured, metallic greenish, the lateral margins and a 

 narrow transverse band at the middle flavous. 



Length 5^ millim. 



Head at the vei'tex and the frontal elevations greenish, 

 impunctate, a narrow space round the ej'^es and the clypeus and 

 labrum flavous, frontal elevations subquadrate ; eyes large, with a 

 rather deep, punctured sulcus near the innei' margins ; carina 

 short and blunt ; antennae fulvous, the thii-d joint slightly shoi'ter 

 than the fourth ; thorax strongly transverse, the lateral margins 

 straight at the base, rovmded in front, the sides deeply flattened, 

 anterior angles not prominent bvit thickened, the disc impunctate, 

 flavous ; scutellum black ; elyti'a slightly widened at the middle, 

 very finely punctured except within the shoulders, where there is 

 a short row of deeper punctui'es, the lateral margins and a narrow 

 transverse band at the middle flavous, rest of the surface metallic 

 dark green, this colour forming two subquadrate patches on each 

 elytron which extend across the suture; below and the legs piceous, 

 the apex of the posterior femora and the tibiae and tarsi more 

 or less fulvous ; the metatarsus very short. 



Hcd>. Bolivia. 



A rather small species, and at once distinguished by the colour 

 of tlie antennae and tibife. 



Elytra with longitudinal hands-. 



Oedionychis vittatipennis, sp. n. 



Broad and elongate, flavous; apical joints of the antennae black; 

 thorax strongly transverse, impunctate ; elytra very finely and 

 extremely closely punctured, flavous, the suture, a subsutural 

 and a submarginal longitudinal stripe, connected at the apex, 

 ferrugineous. 



Length 10 millim. 



Head impunctate, flavous, eyes large, frontal elevations strongly 

 raised, trigonate ; antennae filiform and slender, black, the lower 

 three or four joints testaceous, third and fourth joints equal; 

 thorax twice as broad as long, the sides rounded, broadly flattened, 

 the anterior angles pi'oduced into a small tooth, the surface 

 impunctate, flavous ; elytra with very close and fine but distinct 

 punctuation, the suture very narrowly and two longitudinal 

 broader stripes, of which one is placed near the suture, 



