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haud ampliatis. Hpimera mesothoracica paulo ascen- 
dentes. 
A remarkable species, which I have with the unpub- 
lished name of Hilipus Leprieuri,* Buq., is the sole 
representative of this genus. The principal characters 
separating it from Hilipus are the bimucronate tibie (the 
fringe of stiff hairs running partially along the convexity 
of the outer mucro as in many Hilipoda), and the 
partially ascending mesothoracic epimera; in general 
appearance it is very different from any member of that 
genus. The deep emargination of the propectus extends 
nearly to the anterior cotyloid cavities. 
Syphorbus turgidus. (Pl. IL., fig. 5.) 
S. late ovatus, crassus, niger, squamulis albis sila- 
ceisque variegatus, elytra pone medium fascia flexuosa 
nigra ornata; supra granulis nitidis adspersus; pro- 
thorace transversim tricalloso. Long. 9 lin. 
Hab. Cayenne. 
Broadly ovate, stout, black, closely covered above with 
small, mostly silaceous, scales, but varied with white, 
the sides of the prothorax, scutellar region, and a 
flexuous band behind the middle of the elytra, black; 
rostrum much shorter than the prothorax, a slight carina 
with a short depression on each side, the scrobes 
beginning just before the middle; antenne closely 
covered with silaceous hairs; funicle with the two basal 
joints equal, the third about half as long as one of them, 
the four last lenticular, and together a little longer than 
the club; eyes nearly round; prothorax transverse, the 
apex tubular, the portion behind more than twice as 
broad as long, with three calluses on its anterior border, 
the intermediate one slightly carinated, a curved whitish 
band across the middle, granules few and mostly basal ; 
scutellum elongate-triangular, rising, with the elytra, 
* Since a well-known entomologist named a_ butterfly in 
“honour” of the lender of a pill-box to its captor I have given up 
the practice; hence I have not adopted M. Buquet’s name. Still, 
however, I may not give it up altogether. Many of the persons 
so honoured in the last generation or two are now unknown. 
Mr. Adam White’s: Zopherosis Georgii has doubtless been an 
enigma,—for he never published an explanation,—but as he in- 
formed me, it was intended to compliment George Gray and George 
Waterhouse, two naturalists not likely to be soon forgotten, 
