358 Mi-. G. C. Champion on various 



dentate and 4 angulate at the inner apical angle. Ventral 

 segment 5 arcuato-emarginate, 6 conical. Tegmen flattened, 

 simple, narrow, rounded and entire at the tip. Penis-sheath 

 slender, the outer portion straight, abruptly pointed at the 

 apex. 



Length 9^-101, breadth 4 1 1 mm. ((?$.) 

 Hah. Colombia [?] and Venezuela [£] (Mus. Brit.). 

 One pair, acquired by the Museum in 1844, the S bearing 

 an inapplicable MS. name. The dissimilarity in the shape 

 of the elytra in the two sexes, the elytra themselves being 

 sharply costate laterally in both of them, the peculiarly 

 formed anterior and intermediate tarsi of the <£ (suggestive 

 of the Palsearctic genus Henicopus), and the simple, narrow 

 tegmen in the same sex, are characters of insufficient import- 

 ance to remove A. correptus from Astylus. The <?, which 

 must be taken as the type, has the facies of an Omophlus. 



29. Astylus forcipatus, sp. n. 



Moderately elongate, narrow, feebly shining, clothed with 

 long, erect, bristly hairs intermixed with adpressed, scattered, 

 cinereous pubescence, the vestiture of the under surface long, 

 cinereous ; black, with a Jiaint brassy tinge, the antennae, 

 tibiae, and tarsi testaceous; the elytra flavous, each with two 

 broad vittae extending from the base to the apical declivity 

 (one dorsal, the other submarginal), and a spot before the 

 apex, black ; closely, finely, the dark portions of the elytra 

 rugulosely, punctate, the punctures on the flavous portions 

 conspicuous, and uniseriately arranged within the dorsal and 

 marginal ridges. Head broad, the eyes large, prominent ; 

 antennae moderately long. Prothorax transverse, narrowed 

 anteriorly, canaliculate on the disc. Elytra parallel, bicostate, 

 the inner costa stout, the submarginal one narrow, the apices 

 obtuse. 



^ . Terminal dorsal segment of abdomen with a long, 

 stout, flattened, slightly sinuate process on each side, which 

 is blunt at the tip and clothed with very long blackish hairs. 

 Ventral segment 5 shallowly arcuato-emarginate, 6 short, 

 deeply, triangularly excised. Tegmen narrow, truncate at 

 the apex. Penis-sheath flattened, acuminate and somewhat 

 spoon-shaped at the tip. 



Length 4^-5£, breadth lf-2 mm. 



Hah. BEAZIL (ex coll. Fry). 



Two males, injured by pinning, and both having the 

 genital armature extruded. A small, narrow, parallel-sided 



