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- ili sinuata. angalis Litis, productis ; elytris brevibus, quadratis, rnfo-foscis, 

 eapite atque pronoto multuin brevioril mini angustioribus, ordinibus trai - 



versis profunde et confertim asperatis, lateribus rectis. margin) brevi, nigra, 



erecta, prope humeros, atque altera prope apices instrnctis, apicibus fere 

 abdomine Bat longe exserto, rufo-fusco. ft asperate, a] fcuso, integro ; pedibus 



- isl -. Isete flavis ; antennis modicis, obscure da\>. 



Body suboblong, convex, sbiuing, deeply sculptured, more or less fuscous, clothed 



with fulvous hair. 

 //• ; ; large and broad, black, moderately tuherculate ; eyes small, not prominent; 



antenna 3 moderate, dusky yellow. 

 Thorax rather large, widest before the base, nearly black, deeply and closely tuber- 



culate, with the interstices shining, si l( - margined and much rounded, furnished 



with an erect black seta behind the middle, basal margin sinuated, with the 



angles broad and produced. 



very large, elongate-triangular, deeply asperated. 

 ■/•(( short, quadrate, rufo-fuscous, much shorter, and rather narrower than the 



head and thorax, deeply and closely asperate in transverse row - straight, 



margined, and furnished with a short black erect Beta near tbe shoulders, and 



another near the extremities, extremities nearly straight. 



>men considerably exposed, rufo-fuscous. and asperated, apex entire, obtuse. 

 L i rather robust, bright yellow. 

 Under parts rufo-fuscous. 



from others in its short quadrate elytra, rufescent abdomen, and short erect 



lateral Beta?, which are sometimes lost : it resembles T. atomaria, but is 



narrower and more deeply sculptured. 



Habitat, South America. Found in Brazil, near Blumenau. 



Trichopteryx inconspicua. 



T. inconspicua, Matthews, Cist. Ent. i. p. 296, 187-1. 



L. c. {',-{',■ lin. = 0"63-0"75 mm. — Brevis, convexa, subquadrata, postice parum 

 attenuata, nigra, nitida, pilis brevibus griseis sparse vestita ; eapite magno, lato, 

 antice sat producto, tuberculis minutis, remotis ornato ; oculis parvis, baud promi- 

 nentibus ; pronoto sat magno, eapite parum longiori, mnlto latiori, postice in mari- 

 bus valde dilatato, valde convexo, tuberculis parvis, ordinibus sinuatis, regnlariter 

 dispositis, interstitiisque nitidissimis, indistincte reticulatis ornato, lateribus 

 rotundatis, leviter marginatis, margine basali fere recta, anguhs acutis, dilutioribus, 

 in maribus longe productis ; elytris subquadratis, eapite atque pronoto hand longi- 

 oribus, parum angustioribus, in maribus postice attenuatis, ordinibus regulariter 

 sinuatis, confertim, baud profunde asperatis. sutura Bat elevata, lateribus leviter 

 rotundatis, apici -. parum rotundatis, dilutioribus ; abdomine modice exserto, 



apice minute bidentato ; pedibus late flavis, articulo basali tarsorum anticorum in 

 maribus dilatato ; antennis modicis, dilute piceis. 



Body short, convex, subquadrate, rather attenuated posteriorly, black and shining, 

 iringly clothed with short grey hair. 



Head large and broad, rather produced in front, ornamented with minute remote 

 tubercles ; eyes small, not prominent ; antennae moderate, pale piceous. 



Thorax rather large, rather longer and much broader than tbe bead, very much 

 dilated at the base in the males, very convex, ornamented with small tubercles 

 in regular Binuated rows, interstices very shining and indistinctly reticulated, 

 sides slightly rounded and margined, basal margin nearly straight, with the 

 angles acute, pale, and much produced in the males. 

 ■i large and broad, closely asperated. 



