TRAVAUX INÉDITS. 281 



Caput parvum, profunde in thoracem insertum, fronte 

 plana, subtiliter alutaceâ atque punctatâ, sulco minuto in 

 medio longitudinaliter instructâ, epistomate crebre punc- 

 tato-ruguloso, antice subrecte truncato ibique pilis fulvis 

 sat dense instructo; labro, palpisque fulvis; mandibulis 

 nigris, exsertis. Antennœ subfiliformes, medio corpore 

 longiores, articulis 6 basalibus fulvis, ultimis nigris. 

 Prothorax transversus, convexus, antice sicut et ad latera 

 subtiliter alutaceus, subopacus, punctisque minutis pa- 

 rum dense obductus, in medio disci autem versus basin 

 impunctatus ibique nitidissimus, lateribus subrotundatis 

 concinneque marginatis. Scutellum leeve, nitidum, apice 

 rotundatum. Elytra convexa, sat crebre subseriatim punc- 

 tatâ, humeris modice prominulis, epipleuris limbo in- 

 flexo obliquo fere piano. 



CHALGOPHYMA 



Baly, Trans. Ent. Soc. of. London, 1865, page 339. 



Chalgophyma fulgida. 



Ovata, convexa, subtus nigro-picea, supra purpureo- 

 cupreo-micans ; antennis fusco-nigris, articulis quatuor 

 basalibus, labro sicut et tribus tarsorum articulis ultimis 

 fuscis; thorace superne convexo, in medio disci disperse, 

 ad latera autem foveolatim et confluenter, punctato, late- 

 ribus rotundatis, ante médium obsolète angulatis; elytris 

 convexis, juxta basin inter callum humeralem et scutel- 

 lum elevato-marginatis ibique late trifoveolatis (foveoUs 

 intus fortiter punctatis) ; dorso subtiliter lineatim; ad 

 latera fortius et versus apicem substriato-punctatis, utrin- 

 que juxta marginem lateralem costuUs duabus parum ele- 

 vatis longitudinaliter instructis; pedibus mridi-cyaneis ; 

 tïbiis apice aureo-pilosulis ; femoribus posticis subtus ante 

 apicem unispinosis. 



Long. 3 1/2-4 mill. — Lai. 2-2 1/2 milL 



Cayennae. 



