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bro\vu), strougly ami deeply punctured, the iuter^-als having the 

 appearance of gramdatious, and being furnished here and there with 

 short stitJ' yellowish hairs or setfe ; head deeply and semicircularly 

 grooved between the eyes; prothorax narrowing slightly behind, the 

 sides strongly granidated in a double row which is divided from the 

 granulations of the disc by a smooth line, anteriorly two large oblong- 

 lobes overhanging the head, separated from each other by a narrow 

 groove, but posteriorly from the rest of the prothorax by a broad deep 

 hollow, which extends beneath them ; scutellum small, triangular ; 

 elytra ^vith about eleven rows of large deep punctures ; legs reddish- 

 ferruginous, with stiff scattered hairs ; antennae short, not longer than 

 the breadth of the head, dark brown, slightly setose; body beneath 

 roughly punctured. Length 2^ lines. 



AcEOPis [Colj-diidse]. 

 Burmeister, Gen. Ins. no. 25. 



Acropis Fryi. 



A. rufo-picea, fulvescenti-hirta ; eljiiris subseriatim tuberculatis, tuberculis 

 setiferis, fascicidis sextis nigris in medio obsitis; pedibus ferrugineis* 

 nigro variis. 



Hab. Brazil (Rio). 



Reddish-pitchy, ratlier sparingly clothed with short, scale-like, grey- 

 ish-yellow or almost golden hairs; head and prothorax with a few grey- 

 ish setje, the latter with about five dark spots on its disc ; scutellum 

 rounded behind, closely covered with white hairs ; elytra uneven, 

 with several small granular tubercles, ranged in more or less inter- 

 rupted lines, each tubercle bearing at its apex a black erect rigid seta, 

 in the centre six dense fascicles of stiff black hairs, the first and third 

 of these nearer the suture than the second, an oblique stripe (composed 

 of more closely set hairs) below each shoidder, and towards the apex 

 another oblique patch of pure white hairs (composed, however, of two 

 distinct spots) ; legs dark feiTuginous, with scattered grey hairs, the 

 femora varied with black, the tibiae with a black ring in the middle ; 

 antennae and palpi pitchy-ferruginous ; body beneath pitchy-brown with 

 pale gre}'ish hairs. Length 3 lines. 



This appears to differ from A. tuherculifera, Burm. (which, however, 

 I have not seen) in its larger size, the black fascicles, the yellow, 

 almost golden, tinge of its scale-like haii's, the absence of the shining 

 chestnut colour of the apices of the tibiae, knees, tarsi, &c. Bur- 

 meister in his description of this genus has overlooked the basal joint 

 of the antennae, and describes the second (last) joint of the club as 

 composed really of two, soldered together, and in tliis he is followed 

 by M. Lacordaire. I can find no trace of any such union, which, if 

 it existed, would give twelve joints to the antenna^, and not eleven, 



