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spots of pale cinereous. Antennae robust, finely dilated towards the 

 apex ; the first to fourth joints flavous, fifth and sixth rufo-flavous, 

 sixth and seventh testaceous, eighth to eleventh flavo-fuseous. Legs 

 flavous, suffused with rufous; the posterior femora on their under 

 surface being darkly fuscous. 



This species differs from 0. nodosus in its less transverse and 

 narrower thorax; from 0. Cayensis by its larger and more robust 

 form, and by the more depressed basal angles of the thorax. 



From Surinam (Paramaribo). In the collections of Hcrr Dohrn 

 and the Rev. H. Clark. 



7. Omototus nubilus. 



(Edipodes nubilus, Drj. Cat. ed. 3. p. 408. 

 modestus, Lacordaire (auct. Dej. Cat,). 



0. oblongo-ovatus, robustus, latus, punctato-striatus, fusco- etjiavo- 

 pubescens; capite brevi, haud producto, inter oculos transverse 

 depresso, flavo, ad basin fusco ; thorace transverso, antice bitu- 

 beradato, ad basin transverse depresso, ferrugineo, ad latent fusco; 

 elytris latis, robustis, punctato-striatis, ante medium obsolete de- 

 pressis ; antennis ad apicem subincrassatis, articidis 1-4 jiavis, 

 5et6 rufo-fuscis, 7 et 8 testaceis, 9-11 fuscis; pedibusflavis, tarsis 

 anterioribus femoribusque posticis fusco suffusis, tibiis tarsisque 

 posticis rufo-fuscis. 



Long. corp. 2 lin., lat. 1 lin. 



Oblong-ovate, robust, broad, punctate-striate, clothed throughout 

 with a fusco-fiavous pubescence. Head short, transverse, slightly 

 produced in front : between the labrum and the base of the antennas 

 is a transverse plane and glabrous depression ; at the insertion of the 

 antennas is a medial longitudinal fovea, sharply defined and narrow, 

 extending upwards and meeting a broad transverse depression which 

 connects the inner margins of the eyes ; the eyes are large and tole- 

 rably globose, situated at the base of the head ; the surface is very 

 finely clothed throughout with flavo-testaceous pubescence ; in colour 

 flavous, the base being margined with fuscous. Thorax transverse, 

 rectangular ; the anterior margin subemarginate ; the sides distinctly 

 marginate : at the antemedial centre of the disk are two oblong and 

 distinctly prominent tubercles ; behind these, a transverse depression 

 at the base extends not quite so far as the basal angles, but subcir- 

 cularly upwards; at the lateral margins (immediately above the 

 marginatum) on either side are two smaller tubercles : the surface is 

 clothed throughout with fine flavo-Mvous pubescence ; the colour 

 being ferrugineous, suffused at the sides with fuscous. Scutettmn 



