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94 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on the genus Hilipus, 
abruptly from the base, the latter very irregular, broadest 
at the base, shoulders prominent, striate- -punctate, inter- 
stices with a line of more or less distant granules, behind 
the flexuous black band silaceous spotted with white, 
each elytron with a bulging out behind the shoulders, 
and close to the outer margin a well-marked preapical 
callus, another just behind the middle and nearer the 
suture, the apices rounded; body beneath and legs mostly 
covered with ochraceous scales. 
ByzeEs. 
Oculi rotundati. Tibie apice bimucronate. Ceteris 
ut in Hilipodo. 
A comparatively small species, peculiar as to form and 
coloration, which, from the two characters mentioned 
above, could not be suffered to remain in Hilipus. 
Byzes sciureus. (PI. IL., fig. 7.) 
B. obovatus, rufo-castaneus, supra granulatus, inter- 
vallis squamosis, prothorace linea laterali, elytrisque 
fasciis duabus arcuatis albidis ornatis, his basi prothorace 
haud multo latioribus. Long. 43 lin. 
Hab. Colombia. 
Obovate, reddish chesnut, above with several small 
clossy granules, the intervals covered with greyish 
silaceous seales, disk of the prothorax on each side with 
a narrow stripe, and the elytra with two slender curved 
bands of yellowish scales, the one just before the other 
considerably behind the middle, the two bands separated 
by a broad darker brown band; rostrum as long as the 
prothorax, finely punctured ; antenne brownish ferru- 
ginous; second joint of the funicle scarcely longer than 
the first, the rest transverse; eyes nearly round ; pro- 
thorax oblong, moderately narrowed at the apex, the 
sides rounded, granules transverse, scarcely crowded ; 
sceutellum cordate ; elytra rather short, scarcely broader 
than the prothorax, their greatest breadth posteriorly, 
striate-punctate, interstices ‘with somewhat approximate 
black glossy round granules; body beneath dark brown, 
sterna and sides of the first abdominal segment cover ed 
with greyish scales; femora stout, dark brown; tibie 
short, ferruginous-brown, the apex bimucronate, 
