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// ad largi and broad, marked with ambilicated panel es moderate, rather 



prominent ; antennae bright yellow. 



Thm < r large, longer and much broader than the head, widest at the base, 



rather closel) marked with ambilicated pum atersticea closelj reticu- 



lated, sides rounded and Blightly margined, basal margin slightly arcuated, 

 with tlu- angles broad and produced. 

 Hum verj large, triangular, Btrigosely asperated. 



Elytra short, subquadrate, Blightlj attenuated posteriorly, narrower and no! Ion 



than the head and thorax, widest at the shoulders, it tirulatelv and Btrigosely 



asperated, 3idea margined, extn mities broad and rounded. 

 Abdomen considerably i xsi rted, with a transverse row of ambilicated punctures on 



n!. inti rutins closely reticulated, apex entir< . 

 Legs moderate, bright yellow. 



Under parts piceous, with the mouth and eoxse paler. 

 Differs from oth* in it- strigose and reticulated sculpture. 



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



Trichopteryx depressa. 



V. depressa, Matthews, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6, xiii. 1894, p. 389. 



L. c. 1 7 ,,-]",, lin.=0"87-l mm. — Oblongo-ovalis, sat depressa, postice hand 

 attenuata, nitidula, nigra, pilis griseis parce vestita, elytris fere parallelis; capite 

 magno, prominenti, in fronte rotundato, fere glabro, nitido ; oculis magnis, promi- 

 uentibus ; antennis modicis, flavis; pronoto magno, ad basim latissimo, vix dila- 

 tato, tuberculis modicis irregulariter dispositis, interstitiisque nitidis, profunde 

 reticulatis ornato, lateribus marginatis, margine basali leviter Binuata, angulis latis, 

 modiee productis; elytris fere parallelis, piceo-nigris, sat brevibus, capite atque 

 pronoto nee longioribus neque latioribus, profunde et coufertim asperatis, inter- 

 stitiis profunde reticulatis, lateribus marginatis, fere rectis, apicibus modiee rotun- 

 datis, extremis albidis ; abdomine piceo, modiee exserto ; pedibus robustis, laete 

 rlavis. 



Body oblong-oval, rather depressed, not attenuated posteriori}-, rather Bhining, 

 black, Bparingly clothed with grey hairs ; elytra nearly parallel. 



Head largi and prominent, rounded in front, aearly smooth and shh i - large 



and prominent; antennae moderate, yellow. 



/ large, widest at the base, but Bcarcelj dilated, ornamented with model 



tuberch a irri gularly distributed, with the interstic* s Bhining and deeply n ticu- 

 lated, sid< a margined, basal margin faintly sinuated, with the angles broad and 

 moderately produced. 



Scutellum large, triangular, deeply asperated. 



Elytra nearly parallel, pitchy black, rather short, not longer or broader than 



head and thorax, deeplj and closely aspirated, with the interstices deeply 

 reticulated. Bides margined, nearly straight, extremities moderately rounded, 

 with the outer edge white. 



Abdomen piceous, moderately exposed. 



Legs robust, bright yellow. 



Under "parts piceous, deeply reticulata 



Differs from T. occidentalis in its narrower, more parallel, and depressed oblong 

 form, reticulated sculpture, and black colour. 



Habitat, America. Found sparingly by Mr. Smith in the West Indian Islands. 



