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straight, its basal part above roughly punctured, densely clothed 

 continuously with the flattened front, there being no depression of 

 any kind separating the two surfaces. The mandibles are rather 

 long, straight within, prominent when closed and each has, exter- 

 nally near the base, a broad angular tooth. The antennae are 

 medial, the joints loose, glabrous and with long setae, the first 

 funicular elongate as usual, the second also somewhat elongate, 

 the club large, oval, as long as the preceding six joints, densely 

 pubescent and subequally trisected by the strong sutures. The 

 presternum is fiat and closely pubescent, with the apical constriction 

 fine, the coxae moderately separated. The legs are loosely and not 

 very strongly punctured and pubescent, the thighs somewhat 

 inflated. The prothorax is gradually tubulate at apex, the scutel- 

 lum moderate and densely clothed and the elytral striae coarse and 

 deep. The type is as follows: 



Forandia duplex n. sp. — Oval, convex, densely clothed with thick subdecumbent 

 fulvous hairs, with a single loose series of longer finer erect hairs along each strial 

 interval; the hairs of the under surface are uniform, whiter, sparser and shorter 

 but very distinct; color blackish, the elytra, legs and beak more or less testaceous; 

 beak ( 9 ) very feebly arcuate, nearly as long as the head and prothorax, cylindric, 

 minutely, sparsely punctulate, the antennae rufous, with darker club; prothorax 

 a third wider than long, the arcuate sides subparallel basally, more oblique 

 beyond basal third to the feeble sinus at the sides of the truncate tubulation, 

 which is not quite half as wide as the base; punctures moderate, dense throughout, 

 the median line somewhat prominent; basal lobe moderate, rather strongly 

 rounded; scutellum free, the vestiture not decumbent; elytra evenly and obtusely 

 oval, about a fourth longer than wide, distinctly wider than the prothorax and 

 barely twice as long; punctures of the coarse striae bearing fine squamules, the 

 intervals strongly, closely and confusedly but not very coarsely punctate and 

 with single series of coarse but rather indistinct punctures, bearing the erect 

 hairs; under surface moderately and not densely punctured throughout, the 

 abdomen convex. Length 5.25 mm.; width 2.8 mm. Brazil (Santarem). One 

 female example. 



Very easily recognizable by the dense clothing of coarse fulvous 

 hairs; there are no true scales anywhere visible above or beneath. 



Melampius n. gen. 



While differing profoundly from any of the preceding genera in 

 habitus, the single representative of this genus recalls somewhat a 

 large stout Odontocorytws, but it does not accord with it in any 

 structural peculiarity. One of its chief distinctive features is the 

 form of the mandibles; these are bilobed apically, with the lateral 

 rounded lobe differentiated not only by a notch but by an attendant 

 depression of the surface, the inner lobe is also obtuse but is longer 

 than the outer; the inner edges are perfectly straight and even 

 throughout the length; the apex of the beak above the mandibles 

 is medially sinuate. The beak is rather long and slender, not 



