28 EUPHENGES. 



in front of the middle is an obliquely transverse depression, extending 

 from the first or second stria towards the shoulders ; this depression 

 is abrupt in form, and clothed with thick tawny pubescence ; the base 

 also, broadly (that is, for about a third of the whole length of the 

 elytra), and the margination (more broadly and distinctly behind the 

 shoidders) are similarly clothed with thick pubescence of an ashy- 

 fulvous colour. Antenna} long, robust, the length of the joints from 

 the third to the eleventh being nearly equal ; the joints 1-5 fulvous, 

 0-11 piceous. Legs robust, pale rafous, — the apex of the posterior 

 femora being tipped with black, and the tarsi being suffused with 

 piceous. 



Brazil. In the collection of M. Chevrolat. 



2. Euphenges Lemoeides. (Tab. I. fig. 7.) 



E. oblongo-ovatus, punctatus, ferrugineus, nitidus ; eapite brevi, ad 

 basin antenna/rum bituberculato, crebre pwnctato ; thorace </i<u- 

 drato, rectangularl , ad basin transverse depresso, punctato ; eli/tris 

 apicem versus attenuates, ad basin punctatis, ad medium obli<jue 

 fossidatis, ad apicem impunctatis ; antennis robustis, art. 5-8 

 incrassatis ; fiavis, art. 6-8 nigris ; pedibus fulvis, tibiis p>osticis 

 incurvatis. 



Long. corp. 1| lin., lat. | lin. 



Oblong-ovate, coarsely and sparingly punctate throughout, bright 

 ferrugineous. Head short, slightly produced ; eyes large, prominent, 

 situated at the base of the head ; below the insertion of the antennae 

 is a transverse triangular plane depression ; immediately above the 

 base of the antennas are two contiguous obsolete tubercles ; surface 

 coarsely and very thickly punctate. Thorax quadrate (almost elon- 

 gated), rectangular, subcylindrical ; the anterior angles are depressed ; 

 sides marginate ; at the base is a broad, transverse, shallow depres- 

 sion ; surface coarsely punctured (the punctures being less frequent 

 than on the head). Scutellwm small, triangular. Elytra at the 

 shoulders broader than the thorax, and gradually diminishing in 

 breadth towards the apex ; impunctate ; from the base four lines 

 of broad and coarse punctures (three near the humeral angle, and 

 one at the suture) terminate in a veiy deep abrupt channel, which is 

 deepest and broadest near to the mid suture, thence extending up- 

 wards obliquely towards the humeral angle. Antenna? short, robust, 

 incrassated ; the first joint broad, medially dilated ; the second very 

 short, narrower ; the third fine, twice the length of the first ; the 

 fourth nearly as long as the third ; the fifth to eighth gradually in- 

 crassated ; all sul (pubescent ; the first joint rufo-flavous, the second 

 rufo-fiilvmis, the third and fourth ilavous (clouded with testaceous). 



