390 LAMIID.E. 



4. Probatius partitus, n. s. B.M. 



L. niger, hirsutulus ; capite, thorace antennarumque articulo 

 basali suboehraceis, thorace vittis duabus fuscubs ; elytria 

 nigris cinereo irregulariter maculatis; singulis postice medio 

 unicarinatis, apice mucronato impunctatis, punctis et inargini- 

 bus setigeris. 



Black ; bead ochraccous, with an impressed bne down the 

 middle, extending from the mouth to the vertex ; antennae with 

 the basal joint brownish-ochreous ; other joints black, with a few 

 small bristles, third to the seventh with a narrow pale ring at 

 the base ; thorax subochraceous, slightly mottled, on the middle 

 are two brown vittse constricted in the middle ; scutellum brown 

 on the sides, pale in the middle and at the tip. Elytra black, 

 the base narrowly bordered with ochraceous ; the surface irregu- 

 larly marked with small white spots; each elytron is sharply 

 mucrouated at the tip, the mucro being the end of a keel parallel 

 to the suture which extends from behind the middle to the tip ; 

 there are eight or nine rows of punctures on each ; from each 

 puncture there arises a short bristly hair ; the legs are brownish- 

 black, with a cinereous pubescence ; the tibiae are somewhat 

 ringed in the middle with pale ochreous. 



Length 4 % lines. 

 Hab. Brazil (Para). 



5. Probatius sulphurifer, n. s. 



P. brunneo-fuscus ; thorace supra, marginibus anticis et posticis 

 sulphureis, elytris singulis maculis duabus distinctis transversis 

 sulphureis, prima ante, secunda pone medium, elytris apice 

 mucronatis, sutura iutus mucronem sulphureo signato. 

 Long. lin. 4£. 



Hab. South America (Edw. Shephard, Esq.). 



27- AMNISCUS. 



Amniscus, Dej. Cat. p. 364. 



Leptostylus, p., Leconte, Journ. Acad. Xat. Sc. Philad. n. s. ii. 



168. 

 Lamia, p., Fabr., Say. 



1. Amniscus sex-guttatus. B.M. 



Lamia sex-guttata. Soy. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. v. 2G9. 

 Amniscus v'icinus, Dej. Cat. p. 364. Cheer. Coll. 

 Hab. N. America. 



