196 CERAMBYCID^E. 



5. ACYPHODERES HIRTIPES. 



A. rufus, capite thoraceque nigris aureo-tomentosis. tibiis posticis 

 barba. nigricante. 



Stenopterus hirtipes, Klug, Nov. Act. xii. 473. t. 44. f. 9. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



6. ACYPHODERES TOMENTOSUS. B.M. 



Odontocera toraentosa, Dej. Cat. p. 360. Chevr. Coll. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



/. ACYPHODERES BRACHYPTERUS. B.M. 



Odontocera brachyptera, Chevr. Rev. Zool. Cuv. 1838, p. 285. 

 Hab. Cuba. Mexico. 



8. ACYPHODERES SCOPARIUS. 



A. depressus, niger, flavo-villosus, elytris rufo-testaceis, tibiis 

 posticis barba. nigricante. 



Molorcbus scoparius, Klug, Nov. Act. xii. 469. t. 44. f. 2. 

 Hab. Brazil (Cameta). 



9. Acyphoderes Odyneroides, n. s. PI. V. f. 3. B.M. 



A. niger, abdomine albo cingulato, tborace pilis sericeis aureis, 

 elytris vitreis plauatis apice attenuatis et acuminatis sulphureis, 

 nigro marginatis. 

 Long. lin. 1\. 



Head black; a narrow grooved line down the middle yellow; face 

 with a deepish subtriangular depression; labrmn and spot behind 

 it yellow ; antennae black, two basal joints shining, the others 

 obscure with short greyish pile. Thorax more or less thickly 

 clothed with a close golden pubescence; the back with three 

 abbreviated punctured lines free from hairs, the side ones curved. 

 Scutellum obscure. Elytra reach considerably beyond the middle 

 of abdomen, glassy, flat, pale sulphur-yellow, with obscure 

 scattered punctures, gradually pointed, so that the two form to- 

 gether a figure like an elongated swallow's tail ; shoulder of each 

 punctured and tinged with brown, margins thickened, brown : 

 under side black, thickly clothed with short silky hairs; segments 

 of abdomen at the edge ciliated with white, forming four white 

 rings ; legs black with scattered greyish hairs, femora thickened. 

 Hub. Amazon (Santarem) (Coll. W. B.Bates). 



