and species of Sonth American EnmolpidcE, Sfc. 297 



punctato-striatis, punctis apicem versus minutis ; femori- 

 bus postlcis subtus dente minuto armatis. 



Long. 1^ liii. 



Hub. — Amazons, Para. 



Head smooth and shining, sparingly impressed with a 

 few very minute punctures, only visible under a deep 

 lens ; front between the eyes impressed with a small 

 fovea ; clypeus not distinctly separated from the face ; 

 antennfe filiform., five lower joints obscure fulvous, the 

 rest black. Thorax not broader than long, subcylindrical, 

 sides slightly rounded, nearly parallel at the base, slightly 

 converging at the apex; disk shining, nearly impunc- 

 tate, impressed with a few very fine punctures, only 

 visible under a strong lens. Scutellum semi-ovate, rufo- 

 piceous. Elytra much broader than the thorax, oblong, 

 convex, transversely impressed below the basilar space, 

 finely but distinctly punctate-striate, 'the punctures near 

 the apex very minute ; interspaces plane, impimctate ; on 

 either side of the apical segment is an ill-defined rufo- 

 piceous patch; outer edge of all the tibias fi:equently 

 stained with piceous. 



Paria vittaticollis. 



Elonga,ta, subcylindrica, piceo-fulva, nitida, antennis 

 extrorsum piceis ; thorace la^vi, impunctato, medio vitta 

 nigra, a basi fere ad apicem extensa instructo ; elytris 

 anguste oblongis, convexis, infra basin transversim exca- 

 vatis, tenuiter punctato-striatis, utrisque prope suturam, 

 macula basali subrotundatii flavo-fiilva extus nigro mar- 

 ginata ornatis ; linea suturali nee non macula parva ob- 

 longa disco medio vix pone medium sita, nigris. 



Long. 2 lin. 



Hab. — Bahia ; collected by Mr. Edwin Reed. 



Head exserted ; face perpendicular, vertex smooth, im- 

 punctate, its middle portion with a very fine, ill-defined 

 raised longitudinal line ; front impressed on either side 

 with a longitudinal groove ; eyes subreniform ; antennre 

 more than two-thirds the length of the body, filiform, the 

 five outer joints stained with piceous. Thorax scarcely 

 longer than broad ; sides rounded and diverging from the 

 base to behind the middle, thence nearly straight and 

 very slightly converging to the apex ; basal margin nar- 

 rowly edged with piceous ; disk shining, impunctate, a 



