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separated as a distinct genus, allied somewhat also to Saldius, of 

 the Centrinini, but much narrower and more parallel of body. 



Anotesiops n. gen. 



The body here is more parallel and less subrhombic than it is in 

 Sodesia and much less strongly sculptured or setulo-squamose. 

 The beak is rather notably short and thick, but evenly cylindric 

 and coarsely, closely punctured, except at tip, though shining, the 

 antennae slightly beyond the middle, the scrobes but very slightly 

 oblique, the scape fully as long as the funicle and virtually attaining 

 the eye, the first funicular joint nearly as long as the next three, 

 which are short, the seventh but slightly wider, the club well devel- 

 oped, stout, oval, as long as the preceding four or five joints, abrupt 

 and with deep sutures, the first segment not quite half the mass. 

 The flat prosternum has, near the apex, the usual transverse con- 

 striction. The legs are rather short but not notably modified, the 

 non-tubulate prothorax with a very small and apically sinuate 

 basal lobe and the scutellum parallel, longer than wide, very free, 

 slightly convex and glabrous. The type is the following: 



Anotesiops obidosensis n. sp. — Oblong-oval, convex and rather smooth, finely, 

 sparsely sculptured, somewhat shining and deep black throughout; beak in the 

 type distinctly arcuate, separated from the head by only a very feeble impression 

 and scarcely more than three-fifths as long as the prothorax, which is not quite 

 as long as wide, the sides broadly arcuate, gradually becoming parallel in about 

 basal half, the feeble truncate tubulation distinctly more than half as wide as 

 the base; punctures rather small and sparse, gradually perceptibly larger and 

 somewhat close toward the sides, nude; elytra about a third longer than wide, 

 obtusely suboval, broadly rounded behind, only a little wider than the prothorax 

 and two-thirds longer, the humeri but feebly tumid; surface with a few distinct 

 whitish squamules at base toward the scutellum, the grooves fine, only a fifth as 

 wide as the intervals, the fine uniserial punctures of which bear each apparently 

 an infinitesimal squamule; under surface having coarse punctures, bearing each 

 a very small slender squamule, barely more evident on the met-episterna than 

 metasternum, very minute on the abdomen, but coarser, closer and distinct on 

 the prosternum medially, also apically throughout the width. Length 3.2 mm.; 

 width 1.28 mm. Brazil (Obidos), — H. Rolle. One specimen. 



I cannot state the sex of the type with any assurance; the 

 unmodified abdomen and prosternum would appear to indicate the 

 female, but the nature of the beak and the ultra-median antennae 

 are usually more indicative of the male. 



Parafishonia n. gen. 



In this at present monotypic genus, the body is slightly depressed, 

 though less so than in Fishonia, and the beak is much longer, 

 moderately thick, evenly cylindric, distinctly and evenly arcuate 

 and separated from the head by a moderate though obvious reen- 



