1916]. 147 



An extremely nai'row, elongate insect, with a relatively narrower 

 and more scabrous pi-othorax than the allied C pilostis Champ., the 

 pubescence shorter and finer, the antennae and tarsi rufo-testaceous. 

 Pic's specimens, length 10-12 mm., were taken by Goimelle at the 

 same locality, and there can be little doubt that the example in the 

 British Museum belongs to the same species ; he described the insect 

 as black, with the elytra red at the apex, the specimen before me 

 having the elytra uniformly piceous. 



2. — Conomorphus paranensis, n. sp. 



Conomorphus, n. sjd.. Champ., Biol. Centr,-Am., Coleopt. iv, 2, 

 p. 98. 



Very elongate, somewhat robust, flattened above, the head and prothorax 

 sub-opaqiie, the rest of the surface shining, finely pubescent ; castaneoiis, the 

 elytra with a small black patch at the apex extending forward along the sutural 

 callosities, the head, prothorax, antennae, palpi, and legs (the bases of the 

 femora and the apices of the tarsi excepted) infiiscate or piceous ; head and 

 prothorax densely, minutely, confluently, the elytra closely and in-egularly, 

 piinctate, the punctures on the latter becoming coarser towards the base. 

 Head not wider than the prothorax, the eyes large and separated by more than 

 half their own width ; antennae slender, nearly reaching the humeri, joint 3 

 much longer than 4, the others moderately elongate. Prothorax as long as broad, 

 cylindrical, slightly compressed at the sides behind the middle, the transverse 

 basal groove deep, the foveae wanting. Elytra very long, broader than the 

 head, widened to the middle, the sutiu'e depressed at the base and before the 

 apex, the intervening space on the disc somewhat broadly hollowed. Length 10|, 

 breadth 2 1 mm. ( $ .) 



Hab. : Brazil, Parana (ex coll. F. Bates). 



One specimen. Broader and more robust than C. apicalis Pic ; 

 the antennae and legs piceous ; the elytra castaneous, with the apex 

 black, and moi-e sparsely, less finely, punctate ; the head not so wide. 

 Compared with C. pilosus Champ., the vestiture is finer, and the 

 elytra are much longer and broader, with sparser, coarser punctuation. 

 The allied C. {Caiophthalmus) tenuicornis Fairm., from Minas Geraes, 

 which is said to have the elytra differently coloui'ed in the two sexes, 

 apparently has more densely punctured elytra, and reddish antennae 

 and legs. 



3. — Conomorphus dtntiventris, n. sp. 



(? . Very elongate, narrow, rather convex, somewhat flattened above, the 

 head and prothorax opaqiie, the rest of the surface shining, finely cinereo- 



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