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base of the antennae (which are contiguous) is a short longitudinal 

 fovea, above which (when viewed laterally or obliquely) a slight 

 medial carination extends to the base ; eyes large, somewhat pro- 

 minent, extending laterally as far as the angles of the thorax ; the 

 surface finely punctate, and at the inner margin of the eyes subpubes- 

 cent. Thorax transverse, rectangular ; the anterior angles subacute 

 and depressed ; the sides marginate, the margination being medially 

 subdilated, while immediately behind the anterior, and in front of 

 the posterior angles, it is sensibly constricted : the surface (under a 

 high magnifying power) very finely pubescent; two longitudinal 

 irregular white lines extend on either side from the apex to the base, 

 immediately within the line of margination. Scutellum distinct, tri- 

 angular, very finely pubescent. Elytra broad, subdepressed, coarsely 

 punctate-striate; an antemedial depression extends obliquely upwards 

 towards the humeral angles : several small spots, formed of white pu- 

 bescence (more or less distinct in the example before me), in number 

 about fourteen, are scattered over the surface of the elytra, more 

 frequently towards the apex ; the surface (under a high magnifying 

 power) shows traces of a very fine pubescence. Antenna; short, in- 

 crassated towards the apex ; the first joint elongate and broad ; second 

 short, broad, ovate ; third and fourth fine ; fifth to eleventh gradually 

 but distinctly incrassated : in colour, the first to sixth rufo-fuscous 

 (the second and third being more palely rufous), seventh and eighth 

 very pale testaceous, ninth to eleventh fuscous. Legs: anterior 

 flavous, the base of the tibiae and also the tarsi being fuscous ; the 

 posterior fuscous, the tibiae being rufo-flavous. 



Brazil. In the collection of Mr. Baly. 



9. Hypolampsis Murraii. 



H. oblongo-ovata, robusta, subcylindrica, fortiter punctato -striata, 

 impubescens, nigra ; eapite depresso, vice antice producto, gra- 

 nulato ; thorace transverso, cequato, punctato ; elytris robustis, 

 punctato-striatis, nigris ; antennis robustis, ad apicem subin- 

 crassatis, nigris, art. 10 et 11 testaceis ; pedibus fiavis, tarsis 

 et tibiis (ad apicem) anterior ibus fuscis, femoribusque posticis ad 

 basin pieeis. 



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



Oblong-ovate, robust, subcylindrical, deeply punctate-striate, im- 

 pubescent, pitchy-black. Head transverse, vertically depressed, 

 slightly produced in front ; above the labrum is a transverse triangular 

 plane depression ; above the base of the antennae are two obsolete 

 tubercular elevations ; eyes tolerably prominent, at the base of the 



