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with any «lescril)ed species at pi'esent, Ijiit it is hardly advisal)le to give them 

 a name. 



Mr. Whymper informs me tliat his specimens were amongst stones and 

 short grass on the banks of the Guayas just outside Guayaquil. When living 

 they were of a golden colour. 



Fani. EROTYLID.E. 

 i-i. Morijhoides lutiiautoccphalas, Lac. Mon., p. 361. ]"ur. 



Hah. Banks of the Guayas, Guayaquil ; Xanegal (3-4000 feet). Four 

 specimens. 



The specimens which I refer to a variety of this species arc a trifle more 

 oval than usual, and have the base of the head black. It is noticeable that 

 though M. h(ematoce2)halus is variable in the length of the elytial black patch, 

 in the dej^th of the stiiation, and slightly in foiin, I have not l)efore found 

 specimens with any tendency to vary in the heail. 



Morplioides is in Crotch's estimation simply a section of the great genus 

 Brachysphceuus. The section, if restricted, C(jnsists of sj^ecies having a strong 

 general resemblance. The elytra are red, generally with a black centi'al 

 patch, and the head is often red, the thorax black or reddish, biit more often 

 the former'. M. himaculatus, Germ., is the type of this section. 



25. Homoiotelus acaminatus, n. sp. 



Hub. Nanegal (3-4000 feet). Two specimens. 



Ovatus, antice et postice acuminatus, testaceus antennis (articulis duobus 

 l)asalibus prpetermissis), scutello, pectore, abdomine, femoribus apice, tibiis 

 tarsis(j[ue nigris, elytris obsoletius gemellato, punctato-stiiatis. Long. 9-10 

 millini. 



The colour of this species is castaneoirs, the head and thorax smooth, the 

 latter trajjezoidal, with the side.s strongly narrowed in front, and the base a 

 little rounded. The scutellmu is black, blit the mesosternum is yellow, the 

 epimera and metasternum with the abdomen quite black. The series trf 

 punctures are distinct at the base, but become A'ery obsolete about the middle, 

 and vanish before the apex of the elytra. The black parts of the body be- 

 neath distinguish this from 0. gemellatus ; the spotless thorax, colour, and 

 small size ii'(jm (J. crucicolUs. It seems abundantly distinct from any described 

 species. 



26. xEijitlhus triincatm, Crotch, llevision of Emlylida', p. 116; Ci.st. Ent., 



xiii, 1876, p. 492. 

 Hah. Tanti (1890 feet). Previously obtained in Ecuador by Mr. Buckley. 

 Theie is a single sjjccimen of an A'jjithus in Mr. Wliymper's collectit)n 



