neiD species of Clcridce, 259 



Legs red. Tibite greenish. Antenua; green, Avith the two 

 apical joints brown. 



Hah. — Ega, Amazon ; " found clinging to slender dead 

 twigs " (PI. Bates) ; coll. Fry. 



Isolemidia Batesi. 



Elongata, elytris oblongis, nigra, nitida, elytris punc- 

 tato-striatis macula minuta scutellari, fasciaqne lata extus 

 abbreviata la3te viridi-casruleis, apice ferrugineo, palpis 

 pedibusque obscure olivaceis, antennis, femoribus, et tibiis 

 posticis fuscis. 



Long. 2.f lin. 



Head with the eyes much wider than the thorax (which 

 is not so much Avidened at the sides as in the preceding 

 species), front impressed but not much excavated. Thorax 

 half as long again as wide, constricted before and behind 

 (as in pulchella). Elytra at the base, of the Avidth of the 

 head, Avidened considerably to near the apex, AA'hich is 

 rounded, more couacx and shorter than pulchella; punc- 

 tures and strias obsolete, but the former distinct as black 

 dots on the blue-green fascia, Avhich takes the form of 

 a transverse square spot, and is much larger in one of the 

 tAvo specimens than in the other, apex ferrugineous red 

 (in the smaller specimen only narroAvly so). Legs oliva- 

 ceous, middle femora, posterior femora and tibiae black. 



Hab. — Amazon, village of S. Paulo (Bates); coll. Fry. 



Isolemidia opicalis, n. sp. 



Elongata, elytris oblongis, i-ufo-picea, nitida, occijjite, 

 thoracis linea dorsali et lateribus, femoribus posticis medio, 

 elytris (apice exccpto) et corpore toto subtus nigro-piceis ; 

 pedibus anticis fere totis, tibiis tarsisque posticis viridibus. 



Long. 2^^ lin. 



Allied to the preceding, but of a more or less dilute 

 pitchy-red. Form very nearly the same as in Batesi, 

 puncturing of the elytra very obsolete ; the latter are 

 pitchy-black, Avith a very small, ill-defined, yelloAvish- 

 grecn spot on the base near scutcllum, the apex broadly 

 l)itchy-rcd. 



Hab. — Ega, Amazon (Bates); coll. Fry. 



Isolemidia ? siibtilis, n. sp. 

 Flliformis, nigro-picca, nitida, capitis froiitc, antennis. 



