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casionally confluent punctures of a metallic green color, a few smooth 
spots between the punctures, the apex and the infra-marginal smooth 
line, the anterior inferior surface, rostrum and antennae yellow, the latter 
a little dusky at tip, the flrst joint about two-thirds the length of the 
second, the second and third subequal, but the third stouter, fourth almost 
as long as the flrst and second together; third and fourth joints of the 
rostrum subequal, the second longest. Thorax very convex on the 
disk, near the sides longitudinally impressed, and with a shallow, round 
impression behind each eye, the surface rust-brown, with numerous 
scattered, yellow, smooth spots, and with confluent, deep, fuscous punc¬ 
tures, behind the head tinged with metallic green; the lateral margins 
abruptly elevated, and together with a smooth inferior surface bound¬ 
ing them, yellow, the posterior margin truncated, the humeri a little 
roundly elevated. Hemelytra yellow, with numerous smaller green 
punctures, membrane slightly tinged with brown. Scutellum becom¬ 
ing fuscous posteriorly, on the middle, posteriorly, is a vestige of a lon¬ 
gitudinal darker line, each side of base the surface is yellowish, nume¬ 
rous whitish spots are scattered over the disk and posteriorly, punctures 
smaller than upon the thorax, becoming finer and denser posteriorly, 
each side, medially; near the margin is a rounded blackish spot, and 
the apex, which is subtruncated posteriorly, is covered with a sublunate 
yellow spot, bearing two or three fuscous points. Beneath yellow, 
shining, punctured with green underneath the head and upon the pec- * 
tus, the venter more finely and densely punctured with brown. Legs 
yellow, with numerous brown points. 
Length 10 millim. Humeral breadth 6 millim. 
Hah. Mexico. Cabinet of the Entomological Society of Philada. 
In form it resembles S. irroratus Fab. 
OPLOMUS, Spin. 
0. annotatus, n. sp. 
Deep metallic blue, rather narrow, robust. Head subquadrate and 
flat before the eyes, the lateral lobes dull, blackish-blue, the tylus as 
long as the lateral lobes, but almost surrounded by them at tip, having 
a few large, deep punctures, the lateral margins narrowly elevated, the 
cranium elevatedly convex, polished, with groups of small, deep punc¬ 
tures, the middle of the occiput with a minute orange spot; ocelli am¬ 
ber yellow; antennae slender, black, with yellowish pubescence, the 
