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tennse is a faint obsolete oblique ridge in the form of the letter V ; 

 the eyes are large, situated at the base of the head ; the surface is 

 thickly and finely punctate. Thorax quadrate, somewhat constricted 

 at the base; the anterior angles are subacute and depressed, the 

 sides marginate : at the base (when viewed laterally) is a broad and 

 shallow transverse depression ; a parallel depression (narrower and 

 more distinctly defined) may be traced near to the anterior margin : 

 the surface is finely and thickly punctate. Scutellum small, trian- 

 gular. Elytra broader than the thorax, subparallel, punctate-striate ; 

 at the base, reaching from shoulder to shoulder, is a well-defined 

 triangular marking of rufo-ferrugineous. Antennae rufo-flavous. 

 Legs rufo-flavous. 



Brazil. In the cabinet of M. Deyrolle. 



14. Hypolampsis parallela. 



H. oblong o-ovata, subparallela, elongata, sparsim subpubescens, 

 nigro-picea ; capite brevi ; thorace elongato, angulis anticis ob- 

 lique truncatis, ad basin transverse depresso, punctato ; elytris 

 elongatulis, punctato-striatis, ad apicem et latera sparsim Jlavo- 

 pubescentibus ; antennis ad apicem subincrassatis, art. \-^flavis y 

 5 YLflavo-ferrugineis ; pedibus anterior ibus jlavis, posticis piceo 

 suffusis. 



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



Oblong-ovate, subparallel, somewhat elongated, under a high 

 power sparingly pubescent ; nigro-pieeous. Head short, transverse, 

 hardly produced in front; eyes large, extending laterally quite 

 as far as the anterior angles of the thorax; the surface is finely 

 granulated. Thorax elongated ; the anterior angles are depressed 

 and obsoletely truncate ; the sides are marginate ; at the base, and 

 extending also along the sides, is a slight, obliquely transverse de- 

 pression ; the surface is finely punctate. Scutellum triangular, ob- 

 solete. Elytra subparallel, elongate, punctate-striate ; at the sides 

 and apex are slight traces of flavous pubescence. Antennae slightly 

 incrassated towards the apex ; the joints one to four flavous, five to 

 eleven flavo-ferrugineous. Legs : the anterior flavous, the posterior 

 suffused with piceous. 



The elongated thorax and more parallel form of this species di- 

 stinguish it from other species in the group. 



Brazil. In the cabinet of M. Deyrolle. 



15. Hypolampsis campestris. 



H. ollongo-ovata, robusta, subtiliter pubescens, pallide ferruginea ; 

 capite brevi, vix producto, punctulato ; thorace transverso, ad 



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