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etytris punctato-striatis, rufo-fuscis, jlavo-pubescentibus, vittis 

 duabus fusco suffu&is, ad marginem et inter strias 3 et 5, hand 

 apicem' attingentibus : anti nnis fiavo-fuscis ; pedibus Jlavis. 



Long. corp. 2^—2^ lin., lat. 1 lin. 



Oblong-ovate, somewhat more robust than the allied species ; sub- 

 parallel, clothed throughout with a fine flavous pubescence, in colour 

 flavo-fuseous. Head broadly produced in front, the extreme apex 

 being abruptly contracted ; a well-defined carination extends me- 

 dially from the base of the antenna) to the labrum ; above the an- 

 tennae are two medial oblong tubercles, which are separated one from 

 the other by a distinct fovea : the eyes are large and subglobose, in 

 form oval, lateral ; the base of the head is punctate, being clothed 

 near the margins of the eyes with obsolete flavous pubescence ; in 

 colour the surface is in front pale flavous (the extreme apex being 

 black), the base is rufo-flavous. Thorax not so elongate as in most 

 of the species of this group, almost quadrate ; the sides are finely 

 but evenly marginate, broadly constricted at the apex, and parallel 

 at the base ; the surface is broadly transversely depressed at the 

 base, and clothed throughout, but most distinctly at the base, 

 with flavous pubescence. Scutellwm obscure, triangular, clothed 

 throughout with thick fusco-flavous pubescence. Elytra sufficiently 

 robust, parallel, punctate-striate ; the surface is in colour rufo- 

 fuscous, and clothed for the most part with thick flavous pubescence : 

 between the third and fifth stria?, near the margination (and also 

 more narrowly at the suture), are two longitudinal markings of fus- 

 cous colour, caused by the absence of pubescence ; these markings do 

 not extend to the apex, and are irregular in outline. Antennce ro- 

 bust, filiform, rufo-fuscous. Legs flavous throughout. 



R. neglectus may be separated from its congeners by its quadrate 

 (hardly elongate) thorax, in the form of which it approaches E. nigri- 

 cornis, as well as in the rufo-flavous colour and thick flavous pubes- 

 cence of its elytra. 



llio Janeiro. In the cabinet of the Rev. H. Clark. 



Page 60. — Tetragonotes hexagona. 



Yar. A. Flava, Jlavo-pubescens ; pedibus fiavis, tarsis nigris; ely- 

 trorum marginibus ad a/picem tenuiter nigris. 



A beautiful variety of this species is in Mr. Fry's collection, taken 

 by him in the neighboiu-hood of Rio Janeiro. It is smaller than the 

 described species, being 2^ Hues in length ; it is more brightly 

 flavous in colour, and covered throughout with a very fine, flavous 



