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ring. Thorax depressed at the base, ashy or tawny, with abroad 

 central vitta, and, on each side, three narrower vitta?, purplish 

 brown. Elytra moderately elongated, apex sinuate-truncate, 

 with exterior angles produced into spines, and sutural augles 

 dentiform; surface grey, minutely speckled with dusky and 

 sprinkled with larger tawny (most often rounded) spots : each 

 side has three transverse-quadrate purplish-brown spots or fascia?, 

 which do not reach the suture, the apex edged with tawny. 

 Body beneath clothed with tawny-ashy pile ; abdomen spotted 

 on the sides with black. Legs reddish, spotted with ashy. 



Terminal abdominal segment rather more tapering in the 

 female than in the male ; dorsal plate notched in both sexes ; 

 ventral plate terminating in spines in the male, angles simply 

 acute in the female. Fore tarsi in the male moderately dilated, 

 fringed with long hairs. 



Branches of felled trees : Para, Obydos, and banks of the 

 Tapajos. Also found at Cayenne. I have seen it, in French 

 collections, under the name of C. sexlineata (Reiche, MS.) — a 

 name which I have not adopted, as the thorax has seven lines, 

 and not six. 



12. Colobothea destituta, n. sp. 



C. minus elongata, obscure grisea ; capite nigro, vertice lineis duabus 

 divergentibus griseis ; thorace vittis septem nigris, quarum una 

 mediaua latiore ; elytris obscure griseis, nigro confertim irroratis, 

 cinerco-griseo maculatis, fasciis interruptis tribus vel duabus (plus 

 minusve obsoletis) nigris, apice sinuato-truncatis, angulis interiori- 

 bus prominulis, exterioribus spiniformibus. Long. 4^-6 lin. $ $• 



Head blackish, forehead streaked with ashy-grey, vertex with 

 two tine ashy lines diverging on the occiput. Antenna? black, 

 fourth, sixth, eighth, and tenth joints with a whitish ring. Tho- 

 rax dull grey, with seven black vitta?, central one twice as thick as 

 any of the rest. Elytra moderately elongated and tapering, apex 

 sinuate-truncate, sutural angles dentiform, external spiuiform ; 

 surface obscure grey, thickly irrorated with blackish, and having 

 a few larger ashy, mostly rounded spots ; each with two (and some- 

 times an indication of a third) transverse quadrate black spots, 

 not distinctly limited. Body beneath ashy ; abdomen spotted 

 on the sides with black. Legs black, spotted with grey. 



S- Terminal ventral plate sinuate-truncate, angles acute; 

 dorsal plate narrower, sinuate-truncate. 



$ . Terminal abdominal segment elongated and tapering ; 

 both plates sinuate-truncate, not spinose. 



On branches of dead trees, Para. 



13. Colobothea seminalis, n. sp. 



C minus elongata, fusco-nigra ; capitis vertice lineis duabus diver- 



