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being ferrugineous. Legs flavous ; the postical short ; the femora being 

 piceous, and the globular inflation of the posterior claw bright rufous. 



This species is evidently abundant in the neighbourhood of Rio 

 Janeiro, where it has been taken by Mr. Fry, as well as by Mr. Gray 

 and myself. It is tolerably constant in colour and markings, and 

 may be separated from most of its congeners by the irregular trans- 

 verse markings on the elytra. 



6. Hypolampsis Miersii. 



H. oblongo-ovalis, subcylindrica, punctato-striata, subtiliter pubes- 

 cens,picea ; capitebrevi, vix producto, sparsim flavo-pubescenti ; 

 thorace transverse, ad basin constncto, punctulato, subpubescenti ; 

 elytris robustis, ante medium transverse depressis, punctato- 

 striatis; antennis ad apicem dilatatis, art. 1-5 flavis, Q-Spiceis, 

 9-11 testaceis ; pedibus flavis, femoribus posticis ad apicem piceo 

 suffusis. 



Long. corp. 1^ lin., lat. % lin. 



Oblong-ovate, sufficiently robust, subcylindrical, punctate-striate, 

 finely pubescent, piceous. Head short, abruptly deflected at right 

 angles to the elytra, hardly produced in front ; below the base of 

 the antennae is a transverse triangular and depressed plane: eyes 

 tolerably large, extending laterally as far as the anterior angles of 

 the thorax ; between the eyes is an obsolete medial carination ; the 

 surface is finely flavo -pubescent. Thorax transverse (almost qua- 

 drate), at the base distinctly constricted and transversely depressed ; 

 the sides faintly marginate ; the surface is finely punctate and obso- 

 letely pubescent. Scutellum triangular, impunctate. Elytra broader 

 than the thorax, robust, antemedially transversely depressed; the 

 scutellary angles are somewhat gibbous; punctate-striate (the punc- 

 tures being shallow and the striae broad and deep) ; the surface is 

 irregularly clothed with obsolete pale pubescence. Antenna? attenu- 

 ated, subdilated towards the apex ; joints one to five flavous, six to 

 eight piceous, nine to eleven testaceous. Legs flavous, the apex of 

 the posterior femora being suffused with piceous. 



This species differs from H. incequalis in its concolorous elytra ; it 

 is more robust than H. Dohrnii, the markings of the antennoa are 

 different, and the striae on the elytra are deeper ; it closely resembles 

 in form H. Murraii, but is distinguishable from that species by its 

 differently coloured and pubescent elytra ; from all other allied species 

 it may be separated either by the character of the markings on the 

 antennae, or by its greater size. 



Surinam ; Paramaribo. In the collection of M. Dohrn. 



