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with two anterior and one central tubercle, the base depressed at the sides, the raised 

 portion impunctate, the other deeply and strongly punctured ; scutellum piceous, 

 rugose ; elytra rather depressed, excepting the basal portion, which is strongly 

 swollen and bounded below and at the sides by a distinct depression, the punctures 

 within these depressions strongly, the rest of the surface finely and remotely punctate- 

 striate ; the interstices flat, shining, and sparingly clothed with single erect black 

 hairs ; legs bluish-green ; the posterior tibiae armed at their outer margins with a 

 row of four or five short teeth, their apex witli a double spur ; tarsi piceous ; claws 

 appendiculate. 



Hah. : Ecuador. A single specimen in my collection. 



If. metaUiciis, ■whicli has all the characters peculiar to Metrlotes, 

 may be known by its metallic brownish-green and glabrous upper 

 surface, the strongly raised basal portion of the elytra, and by the 

 sculpture of the thorax, which has the frontal elevations rounded and 

 broad, while the central one is of more elongate and iiarrower shape, 

 and bounded at the sides by a deep oblique depression. 

 London: November, \S%9. 



DESCRIPTIONS of FOUR NEW SPECIES of CASTNTA from SOUTH 

 AMERICA, IN THE COLLECTION of HERBERT DRUCE. 



BY HERBERT DRUCE, F.L.S., F.R.G.S., &c. 



Castkia Amalth^a, sp. n. 



Primaries dark brown, partly crossed from the costal margin by two white 

 bands, the first near the base, the second beyond the middle. Secondaries reddish- 

 orange, with a round spot at the end of the cell, and a mark between it and the 

 inner margin, both black ; a submarginal row of black spots with white ocelli extend 

 from the apex to the anal angle ; the marginal line black ; the fringe of both wings 

 brown. Under-side of both wings uniformly orange-red ; the outer band of the 

 primaries shows on the under-side, where it is broadly edged with black ; the spots 

 on the secondaries are the same as above, but much smaller; the head, thorax, and 

 abdomen above pale brown, on the under-side orange-red ; the legs reddish-brown. 



Exp., 3 in. 

 Hah. : Brazil. 



This species is allied to Castnia Therajjon, Kollar. 



Castnia Pelopia, sp. n. 

 Primaries black, with all the veins deep black, streaked with greenish-grey near 

 the anal angle. Secondaries deep black, the outer margin broadly greenish-grey, 

 crossed by the black veins, but not glossy, as in Castnia Erycina, Westw. Under- 

 side of both wings greenish-grey almost to the base, where it is black : the veins all 

 black. The head, antennse, thorax, and upper-side of the abdomen deep black. The 

 under-side of the thorax and legs black ; the abdomen bright red. Exp., l^ in. 



Hah. : Interior of Colombia. 



This beautiful little species is allied to C. Erycina, Westw., from 

 which it is at once distinguished by its much blacker colour, greyish- 



