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pant le milieu postorieur des opines humerales, descendant jusque 

 pres de la suture derriere I'ecusson, une bande etroite, lui pen en 

 arriere, venant se confondre dans une grande tache au milieu, 

 laqueUe remonte un peu centre la suture, qui envoie une autre 

 petite ligne dirigee vers les epines postcrieures (ces e'pincs sont 

 noires), et, a la hauteur de leur insertion, il y a une autre bande 

 transverse, paraUele au bord posterieur, et assez pres de celui-ci. 

 "' Long. 8i larg. 3 mill. 



" Cayenne." 



Ceplialodonta generosa, Guer. Icon, dii Regne Anim. Texte, p. 276. 



This sj)ecies is very nearly allied to C. conickollis, and perhaps may 

 be a variety of that insect. 



d. Corpus elangatum, dorso subdepressmn ; antennis Jiliformihus, elongatis, 

 articulis quatuor idtimis subelongatis. 



12. Cephalodonta lateralis, n. sp. 



C. elongata, dorso subdepressa, supra rufo-fulva ; elytris subpar- 

 allehs, apiee rotundatis, angulo postico dente acuto armatis, nigris, 

 margine lateraH rufo-fulvo ; thorace subquadrato, laterilius bisi- 

 nuatis, medio angulatis ; subtus rufo-fiilva, nitida ; ore, pleuris, 

 abdominc (basi lateribusque exceptis), tibiis anticis apice, tibiis 

 qiiatuor posticis tarsisque, nigris. 



Long. 4i lin. 



C. narrow, elongate, bright mfo-fulvous ; elytra (their lateral border 

 excepted), mouth, pleurae, the foiu- posterior tibiae as also the 

 aj^ex of the front pair, all the tarsi, and the abdomen (the base 

 and sides of the latter excepted), black. Head smooth, obsoletely 

 angled between the antennae, vertex impressed with a single fovea, 

 eyes piceous ; antennae two-thirds the length of the body, mode- 

 rately robust, filiform, second joint rather longer than the first, 

 four terminal joints subelongate. Thorax subquadrate, scarcely 

 narrowed in front ; sides bisinuate, obtusely angled in the middle, 

 anterior angles produced into a subacute tooth ; above subcon- 

 vex, transversely excavated behind the middle, coarsely punc- 

 tured, anterior margin and a small space in the middle in front 

 smooth, impunetate ; basal lobe smooth, deflexed, transversely 

 grooved. Seutellum smooth, shining. Elytra broader than the 

 thorax ; sides nearly parallel, narrowly margined, posterior angles 

 armed with a small acute tooth ; apex rounded, apical margin 

 (Tab. IX. fig. 14) finely serrate ; above subconvex, flattened along 

 the back ; shoulders prominent, laterally produced, their apex 

 obtuse, not extending beyond the margin of the elytra, their outer 

 edge finely serrate ; sirface of each elytron impressed with eleven 

 rows of deep regular punctiu'es, the fii'st abbrc\dated, fourth in- 

 terstice from the sutiu'e indistinctly costate ; black, subopaque, 

 the lateral border i-ufo- fulvous. Beneath shining rufo-fulvous ; 



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