290 Mr. H. W. Bates on the Longicorn Coleoptera 
maculatis, punctato- -striatis, apice sinuato-truncatis, angulis eX- 
ternis spinosis ; tibiis dilatato compressis. Long. 5—6 lin. 
Head dark pitchy, thinly pubescent, and marked with large 
scattered punctures. Antenne about as long as the body, setose, 
pitchy red, becoming darker towards the apex, with the joints 
pale ashy. Thorax closely covered with large deep punctures, 
leaving a smooth longitudinal dorsal space scored by an im- 
pressed line ; lateral prominence small, dentiform ; surface thinly 
clothed with ashy pubescence, forming faint lines. Elytra elon- 
gate, subdepressed, tapering behind ; apex sinuate-truncate, with 
the outer angles spiniform ; surface very thickly clothed with 
erect hairs springing from punctures arranged in lines; the 
colour is dark blackish chestnut, shining and varied throughout 
with cinereous confluent specks. Body beneath castaneous, 
thinly clothed with ashy pile. Legs reddish; intermediate and 
posterior tibize broad and compressed from base to apex. 
Ega, on dead branches. 
3. Esthlogena sulcata, n. sp. 
E. elongata, subdepressa, postice paulo attenuata, undique breviter 
setosa, nigro-castanea; capite, thorace et scutello cinereo-fulvo 
vittatis ; elytris cinereo confluenter maculatis, punctato-striatis, 
striis postice fortiter impressis, apice truncatis, angulis externis 
spinosis ; pedibus rufo-castaneis. Long. 7 lin. 
Head very coarsely punctured; forehead strongly convex; 
vertex with two ashy-tawny stripes. Antennze about as long as 
the body, castaneous, clothed with grey pubescence ; apices of the 
joints, from the fourth, black. Thorax broadened in the middle, 
and having on each side a distinct acute tubercle ; surface covered 
with scattered punctures, leaving a smooth space along the middle; 
clothed with ashy pubescence arranged in vitte, the central vitta 
(continuous to the scutellum) tawny. Elytra elongated, closely 
covered with short bristles (like the rest of the body); apex 
squarely truncated, with the external angles produced into an 
acute tooth ; surface punctate-striate, the striz more deeply im- 
pressed posteriorly and the interstices costate, dark blackish 
castaneous, covered with small confluent spots of grey tomentum. 
Body beneath blackish, thinly clothed with grey pile. Legs 
reddish; tibize simple. 
Santarem, dead branches of trees. 
4. Esthlogena linearis, n. sp. 
£. \inearis, dense longe hirsuta, fusco-castanea ; thorace foveolato, 
linea dorsali levi, lateribus breviter spinosis; elytris lineatim 
punctatis, cinereo irroratis, apice sinuato-truncatis, angulis vix 
