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nutely punctured ; disc of the protliorax sliglitly concave, with two 

 largo fovea) at the ba.se ; scutellum subquadrate ; elytra punctured, 

 principally in rows of about six on each ; eyes dark brown. LengLli 

 2i lines. 



EuiiYPUs [Tencbrionida) ?]. 

 Kirby, Trans. Linn. See. vol. xii. p. 389. 



Eiu'i/jnis cuprijpennis. 

 E. subangustus, subtil issinie punctatus, ca^ruleo-chalybeatus, nitidus ; ely- 



tris cupreis. 

 Hub. Brazil (Para). 



Head rounded, pitchy, finely punctured ; eyes and antennae black ; 

 prothorax narrower than the head or elyti-a, steel-blue, finely punc- 

 tured, a deep transverse impression posteriorly; elytra elongate, gra- 

 dually A;\ddening behind, rich coppery-red, minutely punctured; legs 

 small, pitchy ; body beneath steel-blue. Length 5 lines. 



Stiljpnonotus eurypiformis (named, but not described, by Mr. G. R. 

 Gray in the Englisli edition of the ' Eegne Animal ') appears to me 

 to be referable to Mr. Kirby's Eurypus, a genus not alluded to by 

 M. Lacordaii-e in his great work. Mr. Kirby's species, E. ruhenSy 

 from the fig-ure, seems to be a much broader insect than the present, 

 which it is not impossible may be identical with Olivier's Tenehrio 

 nitens. The pronotum is confounded with the parapleurse, and the 

 anterior coxte are contiguous and greatly exserted, two characters 

 which do not accord well with the Tenebrionidae : the possession of 

 antennary orbits forbids its association with Lagriidae. In habit it 

 is shghtly assimilated to Camaria. 



CEdemutes [Helopidae]. 



Head transversely subquadrate ; epistome large, deeply inserted m fii'ont. 

 Labnun short, transverse, broadly emarginate. Eyes rather broad, sub- 

 lunate. Last joint of the labial palpi seciu-iform, of the maxillary nar- 

 rowly triangular. Antennae very short, clavate, 11-jointed, the first 

 joint nearly concealed by the antennaiy orbit, the second short, third 

 longest, the rest gradually increasing in breadth to the seventh, which, 

 with the remainder, forms a sort of club. Prothorax transverse, slightly 

 convex, carinated at its sides, the base closely applied to the elytra. 

 Scutellum small. Elytra ovate, very convex. Legs rather short ; an- 

 terior femora strongly toothed ; tibiae slightly curved ; tarsi very short, 

 the last joint longer than the rest together. Prostemum received in a 

 notch of the mesostemum. 



Yery near SpTuerotus, from which it differs in the antennae and 

 legs, especially in the profemora toothed as in Enoplopus, and in 



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