6 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 14. N:0 21. 



Vannius podager n. sp. — Elongate, impunctate, shining 

 and glabrous, excepting the opaque, sparsely and shortly 

 pilose elytra. Piceous, scutellum and elytra red, clavus 

 (except apex), a ratber broad vitta on corium running from 

 middJe of costal margin to interiör apical angle, exteriör 

 apex of corium (except extreme tip), interiör base of cuneus 

 and its apex påle lurid-testaceous, membranepalely fuscescent; 

 antennae fuscous, first joint and base of second piceous, remain- 

 der of second joint whitish witb a roseate subapical annulation; 

 legs piceous, apex of före and bind tibiae and apical half of 

 middle tibiae wbite tinged with rosy red, tarsi testaceous. 

 Head without a central sulcation on tbe vertex, wbicb is a 

 little broader than an eye, antennae a little lorger than body 

 (incl. elytra), first joint as long as width of vertex witb one 

 eye, tbickest somewhat bebind the middle, from this point 

 strongly narrowed toward its base, second joint much more 

 slender than first and twioe its length, third distinctly longer 

 than second and considerably shorter than fourth. Pronotum 

 with straight lateral margins, tbe basal margin in front of 

 mesoscutum deeply sinuate or, ratber, bisinuate, the margin 

 being very shortly produced backwards in the middle of 

 the sinuosity. Mesoscutum with a triangulär percurrent 

 median impression turning its apex forwards. Scutellum 

 finely wrinkled on each side of the median ridge. Elytra 

 with parallel costal margins, cuneus at least two times longer 

 than broad. Front feraora with broadly and sh*ghtly rounded 

 superior margin and rectilinear inferior margin; middle femora 

 linear; bind femora reaching somewhat beyond apex of ab- 

 domen, gradually incrassated from base to near middle, then 

 above ratber strongly subsinuately narrowed, the apical tbird 

 linear; all tibiae almost bare. Length, $ 3 mm., incl. tegm. 

 3,6 mm. 



Amazonas (Fonteboa). — Mus. Stockholm. 



Somewhat resembling V. rubrovitiatus Dist. in the colour- 

 ing of the elytra, but quite distinct from it in its other both 

 structural and colour-characters, as redescribed by Reuter. 

 The rostrum is not visible in the carded type. 



Xenocylapus n. gen. — Body elliptical, almost impunc- 

 tate. Head porrect, slightly exserted, about as long as 

 pronotum, above longitudinally and transversally convex, 



