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quadrate, transversely incised posteriorly, where it forms a very 

 short neck. Thorax subpulvinate, impunctate. Elytra parallel 

 to beyond the middle, then narrowed to the apex, which is 

 truncate. Ochreous fascia broadened towards the margin, its 

 average breadth being 1^ millim. Body beneath impunctate; 

 the two anterior rings of the abdomen deeply canaliculate in 

 their middle. Tooth of the anterior thighs strong; there is, 

 besides, a very small one, half-distant from the apex. Tibia? 

 curved at their base ; tooth of the anterior very strong. 



Prcepodes Jekelianus, White. 



P. oblongo-ovatus, piceus, squamulis viridibus metallico-micantibus, 

 in lineis duabus thoracis maculisque elytrorum laetius condensatis 

 tectus ; rostro tricarinato, carinis lateralibus versus basin subcon- 

 vergentibus ; thorace subconico, insequaliter punctato-foveolato, 

 medio subcanaliculato ; elytris punctato-substriatis, apice acumi- 

 natis ; pedibus purpureo-cseruleis. 



<$ Angustior ; thorace magis conico ; elytris ultra medium parallelo- 

 angustatis, apice singulatim acuminatis. 



2 Latior ; elytris versus medium subparallelo-ampliatis, apice con- 

 junctim acuminatis. 



Long. tot. 15, rostr. 1 T 6 ^, cap. 1 t 2 q, thor. 2^, elytr. 9 millim. 



Lat. bas. rostr. ly 2 ^, has. cap. 1 t 8 q, ap. thor. 2, bas. thor. 3, humer. 

 4^, med. elytr. 5 millim. ( $ ). (H. Jekel.) 



Rah. Choco, Columbia, as I have ascertained from a poor speci- 

 men bought at the Entomological Society's sale of insects. It 

 was given to the Rev. W. Kirby by Mr. Bennett, who sent the 

 Phrenapates Bennettii, which the venerable Rector of Barham 

 named after him, — A. W. 



Rostrum somewhat ampliate and incrassate at the apex ; me- 

 dian carina reaching the front, the lateral ones obliquely con- 

 vergent towards the base, which they do not reach. Head some- 

 what narrower in front, slightly depressed between the eyes. 

 Thorax slightly flattened on the disk, apex truncate, base sub- 

 sinuate. Scutellum small, somewhat rounded, subtransverse, 

 covered with a bright, light metallic green squamulation. Elytra 

 obtusely rounded at the base; shoulders obliquely subangular; 

 rows of punctures regular, at the base hardly, posteriorly slightly 

 striate. In the $, the interstices between the strise 1-2, 3-4, 

 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11 and margin, are adorned with spots of a 

 bright, light metallic green hue, lighter than the ground squa- 

 mosity. In the 6 only one of these rows of maculse is evident 

 — that between strise 5-6, the others more or less rubbed away, 

 and forming here and there a confused lighter condensation*. 



* On the probable causes of that rubbing-away of the squamulation in 

 the c? , I have already given mv opinion in ' Fabricia Entomologica,' i. 

 vi. 6.— H. Jekel. 



