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frequent on the sides and at the base ; near to the line of margina- 

 tion (at the sixth and seventh striae) is an irregular line of pale 

 pubescence from the shoulder to the apex ; medially, also, between 

 the second and third striae is a minute longitudinal marking of the 

 same colour. Antennae filiform, slightly dilated ; the joints 1, 2 and 

 6 to 8 subdilated and darkly fuscous, 3 to 5 elongate and rufo-ferru- 

 gineous, 9 to 11 flavous. Legs rufo-fuscous, the posterior femora being 

 suffused with piceous, and the globular inflation over the apical claw 

 bright rufous. 



Colombia. In the collection of Mr. Baly. 



27. Physimerus griseostriatus. 



P. oblongo-ovatus, fuscus; capitesubproducto, leviter reflecto-punc- 

 tato, nigro ; thorace quadrato, antice subrotundato , ad basin trans- 

 verse depresso,pubescenti,flavo, ad medium longitudinaliter fusco ; 

 elytris subparallelis, punctato-striatis, pube admodum brevi ves- 

 titis, ad latera flavo-vittatis ; antennis jiliformibus, art. 13 

 fusco suffusis, 4 testaceo, 5-8fuscis, 9-11 testaceis; pedibusflav is, 

 femoribus posticis ad basin fusco suffusis. 



Long. corp. 1-J lin., lat. | 1 lin. 



Oblong-ovate, subparallel, deeply punctate- striate, pubescent, 

 fuscous. Head short, transverse, somewhat produced in front ; eyes 

 large, prominent, situated at the base of the head, and extending 

 laterally beyond the angles of the thorax ; the antennae are inserted 

 between the eyes, and (as in Looooprosopus] immediately upon the 

 angle (which is somewhat abrupt) that is formed by the depression 

 of the anterior part of the head ; surface thickly punctate, black. 

 Thorax quadrate, with the anterior angles depressed and obsolete ; 

 the sides submarginate and slightly contracted at the base, which is 

 transversely and postmedially depressed ; the surface subpubescent 

 throughout, flavous, with a medial longitudinal marking (broad and 

 suffused) of flavo -fuscous. Scutellum minute, triangular, fuscous. 

 Elytra broad, subparallel, punctate-striate, clothed throughout (as is 

 apparent under a high magnifying power) with a fine pubescence, 

 but more distinctly so at the margin : a broad band of flavous 

 pubescence is continued along the line of margination from the 

 shoulders to the apex ; this band is irregular and (apparently) un- 

 certain in form : colour fuscous. Antennae tolerably long, filiform ; 

 the first three joints suffused with fuscous ; the fourth testaceous ; 

 the fifth to eighth dark fuscous ; the ninth to eleventh pale testaceous. 

 Legs flavous throughout, the apex of the femora being suffused with 

 fuscous. 



This species, in form and markings, is not unlike P.pruinosus ; it 



