232 CERAMBYCID^. 



Scutellum with close greyish pile. Elytra black, punctured, punc- 

 tures in lines, obsolete towards the end ; about the middle two 

 abbreviated oblique white bands, not nearly reaching the suture 

 and connected at the margin, the fore one broadest, the lateral 

 edges of elytra narrowly margined with ferruginous ; apex white, 

 mucronate ; femora ferruginous, tips reaching end of elytra, with 

 two short spines, the outer one somewhat the longest ; tibiae and 

 tarsi blackish, tips of hind tibia? somewhat ferruginous ; legs 

 with longish scattered hairs ; under side of body black, raeta- 

 thorax ferruginous. 

 Hab. Amazon (Tapayos) (Coll. W. B. Bates). 



35. Ibidion sulcicorne, n. s. B.M. 



I. rubido-ferrugineum, antennarum articulis secundo et tertio 

 planatis angulatis et snlcatis, thorace obscuro, elytris nitidis 

 punctatis punctis setigeris, singulis vitta longitudinali flava, 

 prope basin ad medium prope attingente, vittaque brevi flava 

 obliqua pone medium. 

 Long. lin. 5£. 



Of a reddish ferruginous ; between the antenna? at the base 

 two slight projections, one on each side ; antenna? with the 

 fourth joint rather longer than the third, both of them flattened, 

 angled, and longitudinally grooved. Thorax with the surface 

 dull, with a constricted line near the hind margin. Elytra 

 shining, punctured, apex mucronate ; a longitudinal yellow line 

 on each elytron rather nearer the suture than the margin, not 

 touching the base and extending to near the middle, behind it a 

 short oblique band, somewhat wider near the suture ; apex some- 

 what more clear than the rest of the elytra, the punctures having 

 short setae; femora of hind legs reaching to the end of elytra, 

 their extremity slightly bimucronate. 

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



36. Ibidion Phoracanthoides, n. s. B.M. 



I. ferrugineo-fuscum, nitidum, griseo-setigerum, elytris singulis 

 maculis duabus testaceis transverse positis ante medium, una 

 marginali minori, altera rotumlata, fascia communi subarcuata 

 testacea, marginem lateralein baud attingente. 

 Long. lin. 6|. 



Of a deep ferruginous brown, with scattered greyish bristly 

 hairs. Head in front short, vertex smooth, slightly striated lon- 

 gitudinally between the antennae. Thorax shining, on the back 

 somewhat unequal, depressed before the hind margin. Elytra 

 at the apex with a wide mucro ; before the middle there are two 



