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riorly, the apex nearly impunctate, black, shining, the interstices 

 impunctate. 



Length 2 1/2-3 mill. 



Head with a few fine punctures at the vertex, the latter sometimes 

 stained with fuscous, the rest of the surface fl ivous, eyes broadly 

 emarginate, antennœ entirely flavous, the third joint slightly 

 shorter than the fourth one, the last three joints broken off; thorax 

 strongly transverse, greatly widened at the middle, the sides rather 

 rounded with a very narrow rellexed margin, the surface entirely 

 impunctate, flavous, the base with a short oblique dépression at 

 each side, the dise with two narrow longitudinal black bands of not 

 very regular shape, pointed at the apex and not extending to the 

 anterior margin, thèse bands are widely separated and are placed 

 at each side, scutellum broad, impunctate, foveolate at the base, 

 black or fulvous; elytra with regular and distantly placed rows of 

 strong punctures which are nearly obsolète near the apex, under- 

 side and legs flavous. 



Wether this species is again another of the many forms of 

 C. parasiticus Suff. I am unable to say but as none of the varieties 

 described by Suff'rian agrée with the spécimens before me I believe 

 thèse to be distinct; the species is at once distinguished by the two 

 black stripes of the thorax and by the entirely black elytra, the 

 latter in C. parasitions always retain according to Suflrian the 

 fulvous epipleurae, even in the species with black elytra, in the 

 présent insect the epipleurse are black as well, the elytral inter- 

 stices also are smooth and impunctate, not finely punctued as in the 

 allied species. 



DAMIA LONGIGORNIS n. sp. 



Fulvous, the apical joints of the antennœ black, thorax strongly 

 transverse convex and impunctate, elytra nearly impunctate, black, 

 the apex fulvous. Mas. Antennœ long, the terminal joints but slightly 

 transversely dentate, mandibles large, thorax very broad. 



Length 5 mill. 



Head broad, impunctate, fulvous, with two small foveéc between 

 the eyes, the latter large and round, anterior margin of the clypeus 

 deeply triangularly emarginate, the space at the sides above 

 prolonged into a thickened protubérance; mandibles broad and 

 robust, the left one large, excavated ad the base, the apex black, 

 antenn.'x^ comparatively long and slender, fuscous, the basai four or 

 five joints flavous, the second and third joint small, the fourth and 

 following joints moderately triangularly widened; thorax twice as 

 broad as long, the sides as well as the posterior angles rounded, the 



