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imtelj punctured ; disc of the prothorax sliglitly concave, with two 

 large foveas at the base ; scutellum subquadrate ; elj'tra punctured, 

 principally in rows of about six on each ; eyes dark brown. Length 

 2i lines. 



Etjrypus [Tenebrionidae ?]. 



Kirby, Trans, Linn. 8oc. vol. xii. p. 389. 



Eurypus cupripennis. 

 E. subangustus, subtil issime punctatus, caeruleo-chalybeatus, nitidus; ely- 



tris cupreis. 

 Hab. Brazil (Para). 



Head rounded, pitchy, finely punctured ; eyes and antennae black ; 

 prothorax narrower than the head or eljira, steel-blue, finely punc- 

 tured, a deep transverse impression posteriorly; elyti-a elongate, gi-a- 

 duallj- -widening behind, rich coppery-red, minutely punctured; legs 

 small, pitchy ; body beneath steel-blue. Length 5 lines. 



Stilpnonotus eurypiformis (named, but not described, by Mr. G. R. 

 Gray in the English edition of the ' Regne Anim.al ') appears to me 

 to be referable to Mr. Kirby's Eurypus, a genus not alluded to by 

 M. Lacordaii'e in his great work. Mr. Kirby's species, E. ruhens, 

 from the figure, seems to be a much broader insect than the present, 

 which it is not impossible may be identical with Olivier's Tenehrio 

 nltens. The pronotum is confounded with the parapleurae, and the 

 anterior coxae are contig-uous and greatly exserted, two characters 

 which do not accord well with the Tenebrionidae : the possession of 

 antennary orbits forbids its association with Lagriidae. In habit it 

 is shghtly assimilated to Camaria. 



CEdemutes [Helopidae], 



Head transversely subquadrate ; epistome large, deeply inserted in front. 

 Labruni short, transverse, broadly emarginate. Eyes rather broad, sub- 

 limate. Last joint of the labial palpi securiform, of the maxillary nar- 

 rowly triangular. Antennae very short, clavate, 11-jointed, the first 

 joint nearly concealed by the antennary orbit, the second short, third 

 longest, the rest graduaU}' increasing in breadth to the seventh, which, 

 with the remainder, forms a sort of club. Prothorax ti-ansverse, slightly 

 convex, carinated at its sides, the base closely applied to the eljiira. 

 Scutellum small. Elytra ovate, very convex. Legs rather short ; an- 

 terior femora strongly toothed ; tibiae slightly cm-ved ; tarsi very short, 

 the last joint longer than the rest together. Prostemum received in a 

 notch of the mesostemum. 



Very near SpJunrotus, from which it differs in the antennae and 

 legs, especially in the profemora toothed as in Enoplopics, and in 



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