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COMMENTS AND DESCRIPTIONS. 



The insects nientioried below hâve ail been conirnunicated by 

 Prof. C. F. Baker. 



Gylapomorpha gracilicornis Poip. 



The strongly thickened first antennal joint is described by Pop- 

 pius as « aussen gerale, innen sehr stark erweitert », but in the 

 single type from Los Bancs the antenn?« had turned a little round 

 their axis. In the normal position of the antennae the first joint is, 

 seen from above, pear-shaped, very much thicker near the base 

 than at the apex, and somewhat variable in size; it is also more or 

 less distinctiy pedanculate, the basai stalk being sometimes very 

 short, scarcely perceptible, but in other spécimens quite conspi- 

 cuous. The other antennal joints are very long and more slender 

 than in any other insect known to me, the last tvvo joints being not 

 much thicker than a cobweb's thread. AH veins of the corium and 

 clavus are distinct, the outer cell of the membrane is about half the 

 length of the inner, and the vein separating the two cells of the 

 membrane is continued beyond the cells. The cuneus is more or less 

 narrowly yellovv at the base. 



Trichofulvius z'>natus n. sp. 



Piceo niger, fascia lata leviter obliqua antemediana corii per 

 trientem mediam clavi continuata, macula majuscula subquadrata 

 ad apicem extoriorem corii ante basin cunei striolaque brevi longi- 

 tudinali ad anguliim apicalem interiorem corii albis, membrana. 

 infumata, iridescente; antennte dilute llavtie, articule primo fusco- 

 nigro (duo ultimi desunt); rostrum fusco-testaceum; pedes flavo- 

 albidi, coxis, trochanteribus ac femoribus fusco-nigris; caput et 

 pronotum parce erecte concoloriter pilosa, scutellum et corium cum 

 clavo densius semierecte longiuscule albido-pilosa. Caput pronoto 

 medio paullo brevius, vertice oculo (Ç) triplo latiore, propre basin 

 ulrinque mox intra oculos impressione brevi Iransversa prsedito, 

 articulo primo antennarum spatio interoculari (9) paullo breviore, 

 apicem clypei longius superante, secundo primo circiter triplo lon- 

 giore et latitudine basali pronoti fere tertia parte longiore, rostro 

 coxas posticas attingente, articulo primo marginem anticum pro- 

 sterni paulium superante, secundo primo breviore, tertio primo 

 subceque longo, quarto tertio paullo breviore. Pronotum lateribus 

 late levissime, lasi laie distinclissime sinuatum, callis coniluenti- 

 bus mox pone médium impressione Iransversa breviuscula com- 



