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before tlie apex ; the apical spines are ratlier long as in 

 H. elatus, a sliort distance from tlie suture.* 



Tautoclines scissicauda, n. sp. Cylindrica, robusta, 

 obscm-e fusca, ocliraceo-fusco tomentosa; capite thorace- 

 que (antice baud attenuato) grosse piinctatis ; elytris 

 striato-punctatis, apice plaga densius tomentosa et albo- 

 guttulata, apice ipso obtuse, rotundato, juxta suturam con- 

 junctim fortiter emarginato ; antennis apice incrassatis ; 

 articulo tertio valde elongato. Long. 6 lin. 



One example. 



This species partakes of the distinctive characters (as 

 given by Thomson and Lacordaire) of all the three genera 

 into which the genus Af/e7inopsis ( = Adetus, Leconte j has 

 been divided ; having the prosternum of Agennopsis, the 

 plane mesosternum of Tautoclines and the apically 

 thickened antennjE of Pterichthya. It has upon the 

 whole more affinity with Tautoclines, excepting that the 

 body is of nearly equal width throughout, without tapering 

 in front and behind. The colour of the fine laid pubes- 

 cence is a lightish brown, with a round apical patch of 

 lighter colour and denser texture on the elytra. 



Desmipliora fasciculata. Fab. Ent. Syst. i. 284 = D. gi- 

 gantea, Thomson, Class, des Ceramb. p. 75. 

 Does not differ from Amazons specimens. The species 

 has therefore a wide distribution, but it appears rare 

 everywhere. Mr. Belt states that its hairy clothing gives 

 it a deceptive resemblance to a hairy caterpillar, and that 

 it is found on foliage, like caterpillars, and unlike the 

 other DesmiplioroB, which are seen on dead branches. 



* A very closely allied species, with shining elytra, was brought by Mr, 

 Bucklev from the Macas district in Ecuador, differing from H. nitidxis in 

 having'an ochreous patch in the middle of the base of each elytron, and 

 the tomentose specks being larger, less numerous and round: — 



Harnvioderns sticticus, n. sp. Fuscus, ochraceo-fusco subtiliter pubes- 

 cens ; elytris castaneo-fuscis subnitidis, interrupte subtiliter pubescentibus, 

 guttis paucis rotundatis ochraceo-tomentosis conspersis, maculisque majori- 

 bus utrimque quatuor, prima basali, secundii ante medium laterali, tertia et 

 quarta discoidalibus prope apicem, apice dentatis baud spinosis ; thorace 

 medio nudo, nigro, rugoso ; basi utrimque lincola ochracea ; corpore subtus 

 maculis lateralibus ochraceis vix consiticuis ; antennis $ gracilibus, cor- 

 pore fere triple longioribus. Long. 12 lin. $ . 



Macas ; Ecuador (Buckley). 



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