220 Mr. J. S. Baly's descriptions of 



Scutellura narrowly wedge-shaped. Elytra convex, sides 

 moderately lobed ; eacb impressed with ten rows of distinct 

 punctures, larger and deeper towards the lateral margin ; 

 the seventh row from the suture nearly obsolete, being 

 only visible on the lower portion of the humeral callus ; 

 interspaces plane, here and there faintly wrinkled, two 

 outer ones thickened, convex ; outer disk of each elytron 

 with a subapical spot, also with a more or less interrupted 

 vitta, commencing on the basal margin and extending to 

 just below the middle, fulvous. These markings fr^e- 

 quently form three small fulvous spots, placed one at the 

 base, one on the middle, and the third just before the apex 

 of the elytron. 



Similar in form to C. flagitiosus, Suffr., near which it 

 must be placed. 



Cryptocephalus gratus. 



Subelongatus, subcylindricus, pallide rufo-piceus, niti- 

 dus, antennis (basi fulva excepta) nigris; scutello elytrisque 

 obscure piceo-c^ruleis, his fortiter punctato-striatis ; utris- 

 que apice plagaque magna oblonga a pauUo infra basin 

 ad ultra medium producta, flavis ornatis; thorace Iccvi, 

 utrinque ad latus leviter transversim sulcato. 



Long. \^ — If lin. 



Hab. Brazil, Parana. 



Head smooth, impressed on the fi^ont between the eyes 

 with a few distinct punctures ; eyes large, black, not con- 

 tiguous; antennae more than two-thirds the length of the 

 body, moderately robust, five lower joints fulvous, stained 

 above with piceous, the rest very slightly thickened, black. 

 Thorax nearly twice as broad at the base as long ; sides 

 distinctly margined, converging and slightly rounded fr'om 

 base to apex, faintly sinuate in the middle, hinder angle 

 posteriorly produced, acute ; hinder margin slightly con- 

 cave on either side, medial lobe scarcely produced, its 

 apex bi-emarginate ; disk convex, smooth, impunctate, im- 

 pressed just behind the middle on either side near the 

 margin with a slight but distinct, obliquely transverse 

 groove. Scutellum narrowly Avedge-shaped. Elytra ob- 

 long, sides only slightly lobed ; above convex, each elytron 

 with eleven rows of strongly impressed punctui^es, the 

 seventh to the ninth abbreviated anteriorly; the punctures 

 on the flavous parts of the surface piceous ; interspaces 

 plane, the outer two convex ; below the basilar space, 

 near the suture, are a few faint transverse wrinkles. 



