200 Mr. H, W. Bates on the Longicorn Coleoptera 
The Desmiphore are found clinging to slender decaying branches 
of trees, and are numerous in species in Tropical America. 
Some of them resemble, in their colours and tufted forms, decayed 
fragments of wood covered with minute cryptogamic plants. 
1. Desmiphora fasciculata, Oliv. 
Lamia fasciculata, Olivier, Ins. p.67, t. 17. f. 131; Fab. Ent. Syst. 1. 2. 284. 
268; SIRE El. n. 299. 
D. oblongo-elongata, fusco-nigra, capite, thorace articulisque basalibus 
antennarum fulvo hirsutis et penicillatis, articulo tertio apice infra 
dilatato ; elytris utringne pone medium fulvo plagiatis, basin et 
apicem versus nigro penicillatis, undique breviter setosis, et griseo 
hirsutis ; pedibus nigris, fulve variegatis; tibiis extus dense se- 
tosis; corpore subtus nigro nitido; abdomine utrinque fulvo 
plagiato. Long. 8-9 lin. ¢ Q. 
Ega ; Upper Amazons. 
2. Desmiphora cirrosa, Erichs. 
Desmiphora cirrosa, Evichs. Consp. Ins. Col. Peruan. p. 147. 
D. oblongo-elongata, brunnea, capite fuseo, vertice fusco bipenicil- 
lato; antennis fulvo-brunneis, hirsutis ; thorace supra plaga magna, 
postica brunnea, parte antica et lateribus sordide albis albo peui- 
cillatis ; elytris utrinque prope basin fusco penicillatis, postice et 
abdomine albo strigatis et penicillatis. Long. 6 lin. ¢ Q. 
Generally distributed throughout the forests of the Amazons ; 
also found in South Brazil near Rio Janeiro. 
3. Desmiphora senicula, n. sp. 
D. cylindrica, brunnea, griseo hirsuta, vertice bipenicillato ; antennis 
obscuris ; thorace disco cristis duabus elongatis parallelis fulvo- 
brunneis ; elytris antice simplicibus, postice sordide albo strigatis 
et fasciculatis; abdomine cinereo-fulvo lanuginoso ; pedibus ru- 
fescentibus, cinereo dense hirsutis. Long. 4 lin. 
Head dark-brown, coarsely pubescent, vertex with two short 
erect pencils of dark-brown hair. Antenne blackish brown, 
densely pubescent, and clothed besides with long, coarse, brown 
hairs. Thorax brown; disk with two parallel lines of tawny- 
brown hairs. Elytra moderately punctured, dingy brown, pubes- 
cent, and clothed with long hairs ; base with one or two short tu- 
bereles on each side, but without tufts of long hairs ; apical part 
ashy and marked with whitish streaks and tufts of whitish hairs. 
Body beneath and especially the ab\lomen densely clothed with 
woolly tawny pile; legs reddish and clothed with woolly pubes- 
cence. 
Forests of the Tapajos. 
