292 Mr. H. W. Bates on the Longicorn Coleoptera 
stiff hairs; reddish, joints from the third tipped with dusky, 
eighth joint white, tipped with dusky. Thorax slightly narrowed 
at the base; sides each with a conical, acute tubercle ; surface 
punctured, setose, tawny brown, base on each side with two 
velvety blackish spots margined with ashy. Elytra narrowed 
from base to apex, the latter rounded ; surface setose, punctate- 
striate, punctures elongated ; uniform tawny brown, base of each 
with a rounded, velvety, purplish-black spot. Body beneath 
blackish, clothed with fine grey pile, and setose; legs reddish, 
setose. 
Forests of the Tapajos. 
2. Hstola variegata, n. sp. 
EH. elongato-oblonga, postice attenuata, setosa, nigro griseo et fulvo 
leete variegata. Long. 4 lin. 
Head coarsely punctured, setose, black, varied with fulvous 
spots and spotted with grey behind the eyes. Antenne as long 
as the body, sparingly setose, dark reddish, bases of the joints 
testaceous; eighth joint whitish, tipped with brown. - Thorax 
slightly narrowed behind; lateral tubercles lar ge, with apex acute 
and slightly recurved ; pene setose, coarsely punctured, but 
leaving small smooth interspaces, black, varied with clear, large, 
fulvous spots. lytra tapering from base to apex, the latter 
rounded; surface setose, punctured in lines; third interstice 
costate behind, minutely varied with black, clear fulvous, and grey, 
the last colour prevailmg along the suture, and a light fulvo- 
testaceous spot lying across the’suture towards the apex. Body 
beneath black, thinly clothed with grey pile; legs reddish, varied 
with greyish and fulvous. 
liga. 
3. Estola lineolata, n. sp. 
£. elongato-oblonga, postice attenuata, setosa, fusca, griseo-fulvo 
variegata ; antennis pallide annulatis ; thorace basi utrinque lineola 
obliqua griseo-fulva; elytris punctato-striatis, apice angustatis, 
obtusis. Long. 3-43 lin. 
Head coarsely and irregularly punctured, blackish, thinly 
clothed with coarse tawny-brown pubescence; in brightly coloured 
individuals obscurely variegated. Antenne fringed beneath with 
stiff hairs, dull reddish or testaceous; apices of all the joints 
dusky, sometimes variegated with grey; eighth joint greyish 
testaceous, tipped with dusky. Thorax very coarsely punctured; 
lateral tubercles acute; surface setose, dingy brown, sometimes 
varied with dull reddish, clothed with scanty tawny-brown pu- 
bescence, the base at each side having a short, thin, pale line 
running obliquely towards the disk, and in fresh examples sur- 
rounded by blackish. Elytra tapering to the apex, which latter 
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