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ME. J. BALY ON NEW SPECIES 



strongly produced, subacute ; upper surface slightly excavated 

 on either side, very opaque, nearly impunctate, impressed on either 

 side at the base with a few very minute punctures ; lateral margin 

 bordered by a single row of large punctures, which extend, although 

 less strongly marked, along the inner edge of the produced apex. 

 Elytra broader than the thorax, subquadrate-ovate, very convex, 

 deeply punctured, the interspaces thickened and forming irregular 

 wart-like tubercles over the whole surface. Mesosternal spine 

 very stout. 



DoRYPHORA BucKLEYi, D. sp. Angustc oblonga, convexa, subtus 

 cupreo-uigra, tibiis tarsisque interdum cyaneo tinctis, supra cuprea, 

 nitida, anterinis cyaneo-nigris, extrorsum nigris; thorace rude punc- 

 tate, interspatiis irregulariter elevato-cicatricosis ; elytris quam thoracis 

 basis multo latioribus, apicera versus pauUo attenuatis, convexis, pone 

 medium declivibus, sordide fulvis, rude et profunde piceo-punctatis, 

 punctis inordinatis, interspatiis ad apicem et ad latera incrassatis, sub- 

 verrucosis, fasciis erosis tribus, prima baseos integra, secunda ante me- 

 dium extrorsum abbreviata, tertiaque vix pone medium extrorsum in- 

 terrujjta et abbreviata, nec non limbo inflexo nigro-seneis. Long. 8 lin. 

 Hob. Ecuador. Collected by Mr. Buckley. 

 Head rugose-punctate, interspaces grauulose ; front impressed 

 with a longitudinal groove, which terminates between the eyes in 

 a deep fovea ; antennje half the length of the body in the male, 

 rather shorter in the female, nigro-cyaneous. Thorax nearly twice 

 as broad as long ; sides straight and slightly diverging from the 

 base to beyond the middle, thence rounded and converging to the 

 apex, the latter strongly produced, armed with a small fulvous 

 tooth ; upper surface deeply impressed with large round punc- 

 tures, which are irregularly congregated over the surface ; inter- 

 spaces granulose, elevate-cicatrose. Elytra much broader at the 

 base than the thorax, slightly narrowed towards the apex, the 

 shoulders broadly rounded; above convex, the highest part of 

 the convexity being before the middle, whence to the apex the 

 surface is obliquely deflexed; deeply impressed with large piceous 

 punctures, indistinctly placed in longitudinal rows on the ante- 

 rior half of the inner disk, placed irregularly over the rest of 

 surface ; interspaces on the sides and apex thickened and sub- 

 verrucose ; each elytron with three erose fasciae, one narrow on 

 the basal margin, a second before the middle, common, broad, 

 attenuated externally, and abbreviated some distance within the 

 lateral margin, and the third rather narrower, more deeply and 

 irregularly erose, abb reviated externally and also on the extreme 



