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Ovate, broad, robust, of a rufo-ferrugineous colour, finely pubes- 

 cent. Head short, depressed, slightly elongated in front ; the eyes 

 are subprominent, extending nearly as far as the anterior angles of 

 the thorax ; the surface is finely punctate, above the insertion of the 

 antenna? very sparingly clothed with pubescence, ferrugineo-rufous. 

 Thorax quadrate, rectilinear, rectangidar ; the anterior angles are 

 depressed ; the sides are marginate ; the surface at the base is 

 broadly and transversely subdepressed ; subpubescent, and in colour 

 rufo-ferrugineous, a longitudinal medial line being piceous, and the 

 margination fuscous. Scutellum small, triangular. Elytra broad, 

 robust, punctate-striate, broadly subdepressed from the antemedial 

 suture towards the shoulders ; finely pubescent throughout. An- 

 tenna? long, filiform (with a slight tendency to incrassation towards 

 the apex), rufo-flavous, the apical joints being piceous. Leys robust, 

 rufo-flavous ; the anterior pair suffused at the base of the femora 

 with piceous. 



The pale colour and distinct pubescence of this species sufficiently 

 separate it from the other species of the subsection. 

 Bahia. In the collection of the Rev. H. Clark. 



33. Hypolampsis aestivalis. 



H. ovata, robusta, impubescens, punctata, niyra ; capite brevi, sub- 

 punctato ; thorace transverso, rectanyularl , fiavo-pubescenti ; ely- 

 tris robustis, punctato-striatis, ante medium transverse depressis ; 

 antennis (^jiliformibus) art. 1 et 2 jtavis (ceteri desunt) ; pedi- 

 busjiavis, femoribus posticis piceis. 



Long. corp. 11 bin., lat. \ lin. 



Ovate, robust, impubescent, punctate, black. Head short, not 

 produced in front ; below the base of the antennae is a transverse 

 depression ; the eyes are large, and in form globose, situated at the 

 base of the head ; the surface between the eyes is equate, and un- 

 marked by any carination or depression ; punctate. Thorax broader 

 than the head, transverse, rectangular, rectilinear ; the anterior 

 angles are much depressed ; the surface is equate, finely flavo- 

 pubescent, obsoletely punctate, and of a dull black colour. Scutellum 

 triangular, flavo-pubescent. Elytra much broader than the thorax, 

 robust, subcylindrical, punctate-striate, the stria? being almost ob- 

 solete and the punctures distinct and deep ; an antemedial transverse 

 depression gives a prominence to the base ; the surface is glabrous 

 and black, tinged with rufous. Antenna; : the first two joints are 

 flavous, the basal being suffused with ferrugineous (the rest are 



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