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Eczemotes agnala. 



E. picea, pube ferruginea tecta ; prothorace irregulari, antice 

 linea transversa impressa, disco duobus tuberculis vix ele- 

 vatis. 



Hab. — Saylee. 



Dark pitchy-brown, thinly covered with a short ferruginous 

 pile, a few black glossy granules on the base of the elytra only ; 

 head coarsely punctured in front, four lines of yellowish-ferru- 

 ginous hairs on the vertex, the median line narrow but deeply 

 impressed ; prothorax irregular, especially at the sides, a trans- 

 verse sulcation anteriorly, another behind, between them two 

 flattish bosses, one of the teeth at the side produced ; scutellum 

 transverse, rounded behind ; elytra truncate at the apex, the outer 

 angle produced, the granules confined to the basal half, the rest 

 coarsely punctured ; body beneath brown, with a thin yellowish- 

 ferruginous pile ; legs and antennae brown, with a sprinkling of 

 ferruginous. 



Length 10 lines. 



jElara, J. Thorns., Syst. Ceramb. p. 55. 



Caput antice siibtransversum, tuberibus antenniferis distantibus. 

 Oculi mediocres, profunde emarginati. Antctmce corpore 

 breviores vel vix longiores, setaceae ; scapo ovato, articulo 

 tertio quarto hand longiore, cseteris gradatim brevioribus. 

 Frothorax capite latior, subtransversus, rugosus vel irregu- 

 laris, deiitibus lateralibus tuberculiformibus. Elytra oblonga 

 vel subcylindrica, apice truncata. Mesosternum elevatum. 

 Pedes aequales, breves; femora vix clavata ; tibice posticae et 

 intermediae tarsis breviores. 

 The following, the only species of jElara in Mr. Wallace's Col- 

 lection, was published by me some time ago under the name of 

 Niphona arrogons ; but there are several others from the Conti- 

 nent, such as N. Ferdinandiy N. cylindracea, N. pannosa, N. 

 excisa, &c. The first of these has been recently separated from 

 Niphona by M. James Thomson under the name here adopted, 

 and the others just mentioned are undoubtedly congeneric. In 

 both genera the tibiae of the posterior and intermediate legs are 

 shorter than their respective tarsi. M, Mulsant attributes to 

 Niphona 12-jointed antennae, the last almost rudimentary; but 

 I have not been able to realize this character. 



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