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latter hnpunctate ; elytra very finely punctured, flavous, a trian- 

 gular spot surrounding the scutellum, a small spot on the shoulder, 

 and a narrow transverse band before the apex black. 



Length 3 lines. 



Head hnpunctate, black, the lower part flavous, frontal tubercles 

 obliquely transverse, strongly raised, carina short and convex ; 

 antenna? rather slender, black, the lower three joints obscure 

 fulvous, third and fourth joints equal; thorax parallel, the anterior 

 and posterior margins straight at the middle, the sides rounded, 

 thickened as well as the anterior angles, which are not produced 

 outwards, the surface impunctate, shining, fulvous, the base with 

 an obsolete transverse sulcus ; scutellum black ; elytra very 

 minutely punctured, with a narrow flattened margin, flavous, the 

 base with a narrow transverse black band which widens at the 

 suture into a triangular spot and terminates at the shoulders in a 

 small spot, another narrow band is placed at a little distance from 

 the apex, the sutural margin also is narrowly marked with black, 

 neither of the transverse bands extends quite to the lateral 

 margins ; underside and legs black. 



Hal). Brazil. 



Closely allied to (E. faceta, Har., but in that species the head is 

 entirely black, the thorax is of entirely different shape and has a 

 black spot, and the elytral bands are purplish violaceous. 



(Edionychis dilecta (Chevr. in litt.). 



Fulvous ; antennae (the basal joints excepted) black ; head with 

 one, thorax with two black spots, impunctate ; elytra closely and 

 strongly punctured, a broad transverse band at the base and the 

 posterior half metallic blue, the lateral margin fulvous. 



Length 2| lines. 



Head impunctate, fulvous, the vertex black, the space between 

 the eyes depressed, with some punctures ; antennae with the three 

 lower joints fulvous, the others black, third and fourth joints 

 equal ; thorax more than twice as broad as long, the sides straight 

 at the base, strongly rounded before the middle but scarcely 

 narrowed anteriorly, the anterior angles tuberculiform, the surface 

 smooth, shining, fulvous, the disc with two black oblique spots ; 

 scutellum black ; elytra convex, with a narrow flattened margin, 

 very closely and distinctly punctured, the punctures stronger 

 anteriorly near the suture than posteriorly, the base slightly 

 raised, the blue bands interrupted at the middle by a narrow 

 fulvous band and not extending laterally to the margins, the 

 posterior margin of the basal band sinuate, the anterior margin of 

 the posterior band convex ; underside and legs fulvous. 



Hub. Constancia, Brazil {Gray). 



(Ediojstchis quaeeipustulata (Clk. Catal.). (Plate XXXVIII. 

 fig. 7.) 



Kather narrow and elongate, ferruginous ; antenna? (the basal 

 joints excepted) black ; thorax pale flavous, with a ferruginous spot 



