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tlie h-dae ; inetasternuiii with a niucli larger and more feeble impression in 

 tlie middle. Legs black, tibife and tarsi pieeous covered witli brown scales ; 

 anterior tibia' witli a row of moderately strongly developed spines on tlie 

 inner margin. Length, 10-11 mm. 



Allied to Nauixidus ruricola, Boliem., hvin Biazil ; ditfeis in being 

 covered with brown instead of golden green scales, in having the prothorax 

 proportionately liroader, and the anterior tibiie armed with short spines. 



12. N. iMiqjer, sji. n. 



Hab. Quito (9500 feet) ; Pichincha (12-13,000 feet). 



Elongate, rather narrow, moderately convex, pieeous, closely covered 

 with brown scales intermingled with a few paler silvery - green ones ; the 

 elytra pitchy and even more closely coveied with brown scales. Head 

 lather broad, extremely finely rugulose, with an indistinct median line ; 

 eyes large and prominent ; rostrum somewhat constiicted just beyond the 

 middle, with a moderately strongly impressed longitudinal line in the middle 

 extending thi'oughout its whole length. Antennae densely pubescent ; the 

 scape j)iceous, the funiculus ami club ferruginous. Prothorax transverse, 

 about as broad in front as behind, very finely punctured and rugulose, with 

 an inconspicuous longitudinal line of green scales on each side of the middle ; 

 the anterior margin slightly raised and ferruginous ; sides regularly arcuate ; 

 the median line very indistinct. Scutellum small, covered with white scales. 

 Elytra more than twice as long as the head and prothorax together, consider- 

 ably broader at the Ijase than the prothorax, sparingly coveied with short 

 brown and I'ather bristly hairs especially on the disc, moderately strongly 

 striate-punctate, the interstices rather broad and imj^unctate, the stripe more 

 feeble near the apex ; humeral angles slightly prominent ; sides nearly 

 paiallel for two-thirds of their length, tlien arcuately narrowed to the apex. 

 Underside pieeous, thickly clothed with brown and silvery - green scales, 

 extremely finely lugulose. Legs j)itchy red, sparingly clothed with scales. 

 Length, 7 mm. This species has something of the ajipearance of a Sitones. 



13. N. iiigravs, sj). n. 



Hab. Between Quito and Guallabamba (9000 feet). 



Elongate-ovate, rather convex, black, shining, sparingly covered Avitli 

 extremely fine yellow pubescence. Head finely and moderately closely 

 punctured ; eyes rather large, lateral and rather prominent ; rostrum ui il 

 \'ery long, slightly narrower in fi'ont than beliind, more strongly punctuied 

 than the head, the sides finely strigose ; with a moderately strong longi- 

 tudinal impression between the eyes extending from neai' the base of the 

 head t(j just Ijehind the apex of the rostrum. Antenn;v pitchy, the club 



