( 26G ) 



pubescent grey, kuees rufous, upperside of tibiae brown, no rings or spots ; hind- 

 tibia comj)ressed, black like the first tarsal segment. 



Length, 6 mm. 



Hah. French Guiana. 



1 c?. 



40. Homocloeus dorsalis spec. nov. 



?. Bufons brown. Kostrnm lunger than broad, densely punctate-rugulate ; 

 a broad mesial vitta yellowish ochraceous, extending over head ; carina flat, 

 reaching ape.x. Frons more than half the width of the rostrum (in middle). A 

 grey streak beneath eye. Antenna riifons, club brown, e.\ecpt tip, segment 3 twice 

 the length of 2, one-third longer than 4, 8 incrassate, nearly twice as long as broad, 

 one-third and 11 one-fourth longer than broad, 10 twice as broad as long. 

 Frothorax impunctate like sterna, longer than broad, with broad yellowish 

 ochraceous mesial vitta, which is narrower than that of head ; sides sharply 

 dotteil with the same pubescence. Elytra with a large sutural depression as iu 

 vestitus ; this depression filled in with a yellowish ochraceous patch, which e.Ktends 

 to scntellum, and in which there are vestiges of minute brown dots, especially at the 

 suture; rest of elytra sharply dotted with a similar pubescence ; stripes of punctures 

 distinct, but very feebly impressed ; no tubercles. Pygidinm rounded, dotted with 

 jjale ochraceous. Underside brown in middle, dotted with greyish clay at the 

 sides, presternum with clayish grey vitta separating the dotted area from the 

 unicolorons central area. Legs long, entirely lufous. 



Length, to ?> mm. 



Hab. Espirito 8anto. 



A series. 



Trachytropis gen. nov. 



? . Close to Go/iioclofus. Rostrum twice as long as broad, narrowest near 

 base. Lobes of false meutum strongly rounded. Gula mesially carinate. End- 

 segment of antenna small, in transverse. Eyes lateral, widely sejiarate, the frons 

 being anteriorly little narrower than the rostrum. Trothora-x deeply grooved, carina 

 very irregular, fiexed forward at sides, projecting as a high rounded lobe iu middle 

 of side (dorsal view). Underside densely punctate-rngate. Pubescence of legs 

 stifi', rough ; hindtibia rather strongly but gradually widening from base to apex. 



Type : 7\ as/H'r spec. uov. 



on. Trachytropis asper spec. nov. 



S. Black, slightly clayish above, greyish beneath, without ilistinct jiattern. 

 Kostrum deeply impressed mesially from base beyond middle, with an additional, 

 rounded, groove on each side above at apical fuurth. Head with several grooves. 

 Antenna short, segments 1 to 8 rufescent, "3 = 4, a little longer than 2, 6 to 8 

 gradually thicker, 8 nearly as broad apically as long, club broad, 'J triangular, as 

 broad at apex as long, sinuate, lU transverse, sinuate, nearly twice as broad as 

 long, with straight sides, 11 much narrower than 10, about as long as broad, 

 rounded, snbacuminate. Frothorax broader than long, with a very large central 

 impression bearing a small mesial tubercle, and another large impression at each 

 side, the ridges separating the three grooves from one another being high, bottom 

 of grooves uneven ; carina broadly and rather deeply concave in middle, then 



