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Miers, was taken by that gentleman near Rio. It is another aberrant 

 form of the genus, distinguished by its dentate prothorax. 



Elajyh. amahile. Nigrum, pilis canis obsitum, protliorace femori- 

 busque rubris ; antennae corpore pauUo breviores, articulis 3 — 7 

 apice 1-spinosis : elytra sutura depressa, apice oblique truncata, 

 angulis 1-spinosis. (Corp. long. "55 unc. lat. '125 unc.) 



Inhabits Mexico. There is a single specimen in the cabinet of Mr. 

 Waterhouse. The species dejlendu^n, sohriiim and amahile form a 

 very distinct division of the genus. 



Genus. — Nephalius, Newman. 



Nepli. hlandits. Caput rufum ; antenna; corpore manifesto longi- 

 giores, articulis canaliculatis, anguhUis, 3 — 6 apice 1-spinosis, 

 Imo rufo, coeteris nigricantibus, lanuginosis : prothorax dorso 

 inaequalis, aspere pimctus, lateribus dente mediano magno ar- 

 matus ; rufus : elytra puncta, punctis mediocribus, sequalibus, 

 nullo modo ordinatim dispositis, apice vix truncata, angulo ex- 

 terno acute 1-spinoso; rufa, utriusque macula magna discoidali 

 ante medium albida nigro circumdata ; maculae marginem vix 

 lateralem, nullo modo suturalem, attingunt : pedes mediocres, 

 femoribus vix incrassatis, apice nullo modo armatis, ruiis, tibiis 

 tarsisque nigris. (Corp. long. 1 unc. lat. "225 unc.) 



Inhabits Brazil. There is a single specimen in the cabinet of the 

 British Museum. This beautiful insect, like those previously describ- 

 ed of the proposed genus Nephalius, will not range with Trichophorus 

 on account of its differently formed prothorax, and its spinose anten- 

 nae distinguish it from Eburia, to which genus its general structure and 

 ivory coloured spots indicate an affinity. 



Edward Newman. 



JOHN van VOORST, W HMP^k/ I5 PATERNOSTER ROW. 



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