( 'J<)'2 ) 



uud uliiiost regularly tesselatetl with white and coppery browu, but the colours 

 not sharply coutrasting. 



Length, '2h mm. 



JIab. Cochabamba, Bolivia (Germain). 



1 ?. 



100. Phaenithon tibialis spec. nov. 



(?. Black, dotted with wliite ; the dots small and separate on head, on sides 

 of elytra before and behind miiUUe and on sterna, more or less confluent on 

 pronotum and on disc of elytra. Rostrum deeply impressed ; apical sinus anguli- 

 form. FroDS with three pairs of carinae. Prothorax conical, depressed before 

 carina, otherwise evenly convex ; carina angulate in middle. >Scutellum nearly 

 vertical, leaning against a high rounded iiumj) formed by the first interspaces 

 of either elytrnm. Elytra shorter than in carcipes, depressed at suture, third 

 interspace subcostate, but impressed just behind base ; the white dots partly 

 forming transverse rows. Pygidium truncate-rotnudate. Prosternum impressed 

 mesially in front, vertical behind. Mesosternal process vertical, bruad, broadly 

 sulcata, apical fourth horizontal, on a level with metasternum (or projecting 

 rather more ventrad). Anterior tibia strongly dilated, velvety black ; midtibia 

 with narrow, hindtibia with broad median creamy white ring ; first and second 

 tarsal segments and base of fourth creamy buff. 



Length, 7 mm. 



Hab. Cerqueira Cesar, Sao Paulo, .January 1899 (Gounelle). 



1 c?. 



107. Phaenithon longitarsis spec. nov. 



c? ¥ . Rufescent browu ; legs rufous, tarsal segments 2 to 4 and tip of 1 

 blackish ; pubescence of iipperside olivaceous brown ; a broad clayish grey mesial 

 vitta from apex of rostrum to base of jironotum, slightly widening behind, 

 occupying the whole frons ; some small lateral sjiots on jironotum the same colour ; 

 elytra with a broad sutural stripe, deeply constricted near base, in middle, 

 iind again before apex, and a number of dots of varying sizes situated discally 

 and laterally, clayish grey, suture dotted with browu ; pygidium with three clayish 

 grey vittae, strongly narrowing apicad, more or less abbreviated, esjiecialjy tiu^ 

 lateral ones, appearing as elongate-triangular spots ; underside sparsely pubescent 

 grey, sides densely pubescent clayish, abdomen with a row of brown lateral dots 

 situated at the bases of the segments. 



iSinns of rostrum anguliibrm ; two cariniform ridges continuous with the 

 orbicular edges. Frons with prominent mesial carina. Antenna black, reaching 

 middle of prothorax, segment 3 nearly twice the length of 2, 11 obliquely truncate 

 acuminate, somewhat curved, elongate, more than three times (c?) or than twice 

 (?) as long as broad. Prothorax mesially depressed, especially at apex and 

 carina, very minutely granulated, the granules transversely enlarged to very 

 short ridges on disc ; apical margin shallowly sinuate. Elytra depressed at 

 sntnre, distinctly punctate-striate, obviously narrowed from near base to near 

 apex. Pygidium rounded at apex in both sexes. Antecoxal portion of pro- 

 sternum much longer than the coxa is broad. Mesosternal process vertical. 

 Metasternum convex in both sexes. Abdomen not imjiressed in <?, except last 

 segment, which is rounded at apex. Legs long, tarsi especially prolonged, first 



