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The pale basal spot on each elytron not noticeably 
curved towards margin 6 
6. Beetle elongate oval with elongate basal spot. Venez- 
uela pretiosa Baly 
Beetles more oval, less elongate 7 
7. About 2.5 mm. in length, elytral basal spot oblong. 
Amazon, Brazil ornata Baly 
About 3.5 mm. in length, elytral basal spot elliptical 
and extending obliquely towards margin. Trini- 
dad trinitatis Bryant 
8. Elytra pale orange yellow, 4 dark spots, the suture and 
apex dark, lateral margin pale. Brazil 
vandepolli Duvivier 
Elytra pale with 4 dark spots or vittae, lateral margin 
more or less darkened 9 
9. Each elytron with an angular spot in the middle, some- 
times one at middle of the base, the suture pale. 
Grenada cjranulata Jacoby 
Suture dark in part or entirely dark 10 
10. A large median dark spot common to both elytra, other- 
wise suture pale. South America . . taurops n. sp. 
Suture dark from base to apex 11 
11. Body beneath, femora and tibiae in part dark. 
Bolivia melanoloma n. sp. 
Body beneath, femora and legs pale yellow brown. 
Argentina argentinensis n. sp. 
Megistops bryanti n. sp. 
(Plate 1, figure 8) 
About 3.5 mm. in length, smooth, oval, faintly shining, 
pale yellow brown, the elytra with dark brown sutural and 
lateral margins, covering humeri and wider at apex, and 
a long but not entire subsutural vitta often connecting 
with the sutural vitta, and a shorter median vitta connect- 
ing with the lateral marginal one below middle; breast 
and often middle of prosternum deeper brown. 
