1905,] ON NEW SPECIES OF PHYTOPHAGOUS COLEOPTERA. 591 



The following descriptions of two new species of Coleoptera of 

 the genus Homo'phoe.ta were inadvertently omitted fi'om Mr. Martin 

 Jacoby's paper supra page 399 : — 



HoMOPHtETA ARGUS, sp. n. (Plate XIY. fig. 3.) 



Flavous, the antennse, knees, tibiae, and tarsi black ; thorax 

 with a transverse black band ; elytra not perceptibly punctured, 

 each elytron with five round pale spots surrounded by a black 

 ring. 



Length 6-7 millim. 



Yar. Thorax without the black band. 



Head impunctate, the middle portion and the clypeus yellowish 

 white, the vertex and the labrum black ; antennte extending 

 beyond the base of the elytra, black, the joints rather short and 

 i-obust, third and fourth equal. Thorax strongly transverse, the 

 sides rounded, the anterior angles strongly thickened and produced, 

 the surface impunctate, with a transverse narrow black band not 

 extending to either maig'in. Scutellum black or piceous. Elytra 

 flavous, each elytron with five round pale spots, each spot sur- 

 rounded by a black ring, and as follows — one at the base near the 

 scutellum, one at the middle near the lateral margin, a third 

 below the middle near the suture, and the others near the apex 

 and joined together transversely ; apex of the femora, the tibiaj 

 and tarsi black. 



Rah. Sao Paolo, Brazil, also Bolivia. 



This species must not be confounded with H. anmdata Illig., 

 which it resembles somewhat in number and position of the 

 elytral spots ; but these in the present species are of difterent 

 shape, round instead of transverse, always margined with black, 

 and the subapical spots joined at their inner margins. In 

 Gemminger's Catalogue the name of Argus Chevr. i. litt. is given 

 once as a synonym of H. annularis 111. and again as Oedionych. 

 lO-guttata Fab., but the species has evidently never been described. 

 IT. 4:-notata Illig. is a variety of JI. ceqioinoGtialis Fab. None of 

 these species has a black banded thorax like the present typical 

 form. 



HOMOPHCETA ANGUSTOLINEATA, Sp. n. (Plate XIY. fig. 1.) 



Below and the legs fulvous, above blight flavous, entirely 

 impunctate, antennae dark fulvous, scutellum black ; elytra with 

 the extreme margins, a ring-shaped band at the sides and another 

 transverse band near the apex, violaceous black or teneous. 



Length 6|-7 millim. 



Head entirely flavous ; antennae robust, entirely dark f alvous. 

 Thorax transverse, the anterior angles prominent and thickened. 

 Elytra shining ; bright yellow, narrowly margined with purplish 

 or violaceous, with a narrow transversely rounded similarly 

 coloured band near the middle, nearly extending to the suture, 



Proc. Zool. Soc.~1905, Yol. II. No. XL. 40 



