124 HOMOTYPHFS. 



as far as the anterior angles of the thorax, and situated at some little 

 distance from the base of the head; the surface finely punctate. 

 Thorax transverse, rectilinear; the anterior angles subacute and 

 depressed ; the sides marginate ; at the base is a broad and shallow 

 transverse depression ; the surface thickly punctate and (when seen 

 under a high power) finely flavo -pubescent. Scutdlum small, trans- 

 versely triangular. Elytra much broader than the thorax, robust, 

 distinctly punctate-striate ; a shallow transverse depression extends 

 antemedially in an oblique direction towards the shoulders ; the sur- 

 face is clothed throughout with fine flavous pubescence. Antennae 

 (probably filiform) ; the four basal joints pale testaceous ; the first 

 and second joints are robust, and the third and fourth attenuated 

 (the rest are wanting). Legs flavous throughout ; the globular in- 

 flation above the posterior claw being bright fulvous. 



Brazil ; Minas Geraes. In the collection of M. Chevrolat. 



3. Homotyphus fuliginosus. 



H. ovatus, latus, rolustus, fusco-pubescens, niger ; capite brevi, inter 

 oculoSj ad basin antennarum (rufo suffusam], bituberculato, 

 punctato ; ihorace subquadrato, ad apicem leviter bituberculato, 

 granulate; elytris latis, striato-punctatis ; antennis ad apicem 

 dilatatis, fulvis, art. 7 m et S vo nigro-fuscis ; pedibus robustis, 

 nigro-fulvis ; femoribus posticis fuscis. 



Long. corp. 2^ lin., lat. 1-^ lin. 



Ovate, broad, robust, fusco-pubescent, black. Head short, trans- 

 verse, depressed, slightly elongated ; eyes tolerably large : immediately 

 above the insertion of the antenna are two distinct longitudinal 

 tubercles ; above them are three obsolete lines of carination, one 

 medial, extending nearly to the base, the others obliquely trans- 

 verse: the surface in front finely punctured, more distinctly and 

 coarsely at the base ; near the insertion of the antenna suffused with 

 rufous. Thorax quadrate (slightly transverse), the anterior angles 

 depressed ; at the apex are two slightly raised tubercles (in form re- 

 sembling, but very much more obsolete than those of H. tuberculatus) ; 

 surface granulated, covered with short pubescence. Scutellum small, 

 almost obsolete, triangular. Elytra broader than the thorax, with 

 punctures arranged in the form of stria3 (the punctures not so coarse 

 as in If. tuberculatus) ; the surface is covered throughout with short, 

 squamose, dark fuscous pubescence. Antennce broad, robust ; from 

 the seventh to the eleventh joints dilated, fulvous, the seventh and 

 eighth joints being dark fuscous. Legs robust, dark fulvous, the 

 posterior femora being fuscous. 



Mexico. In the collections of Mr. Fry and the Rev. H. Clark. 



