252 HYPOLAMPSIS. 



26. Hypolampsis regia. 



H. oblonga, ovata, robusta, subtiliter pubescens, punctato-striata, 

 rufo-ferruginea ; capite depresso, punctato ; ihorace quadrato, 

 ad basin valde constricto et punctato, flavo-pubescenti, rufo-ferru- 

 gineo, lateribus et linea media longitudinali piceis ; elytris sub- 

 cylindricis, ante medium depressis, punctato-striatis, rufo-ferru- 

 gineis, marginibus rufo-piceis, et ad apicem pubescentibus ; an- 

 tennis filiformibus, flavis; pedibus flavis, femoribus tibiisque 

 posticis rufo-flavis. 



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



Oblong, ovate, robust, finely pubescent, punctate-striate, of a rufo- 

 ferrugineous colour. Head short, transverse, almost vertical, not 

 produced in front ; the eyes are large, lateral, and situated at the 

 base of the head ; the surface between the eyes is finely punctate. 

 Thorax quadrate, very considerably constricted at the base; the 

 anterior angles are depressed and subprominent ; the sides are in form 

 subsinuate and marginate ; the surface near the base is transversely 

 subdepressed, finely punctate, and sparingly clothed with flavous pu- 

 bescence ; the colour is rufo-ferrugineous, the sides (especially near 

 the anterior angles) and a medial longitudinal line being piceous. 

 Scutellum triangular, piceous. Elytra subcylindrical, antemedially 

 transversely depressed, punctate- striate ; in colour rufo-ferrugineous, 

 the margins alone being suffused with piceous, and the apex being 

 more distinctly pubescent. Antenna filiform and flavous. Legs flavous, 

 the posterior femora and tibiae being rufo-flavous. 



H. regia may be distinguished from its congeners by the absence 

 of any carination or depression of the surface between the eyes, by 

 its very decided constriction at the base of the thorax, and by the 

 colour of its elytra. 



From the neighbourhood of Ega, in the district of the River 

 Amazon. Taken by Mr. Bates. 



27. Hypolampsis flavo-notata. 



H. ovata, subparallela, sat robusta, tenuiter subpubescens, flavo- 

 ferruginea ; capite ad basin antennarum longitudinaliter sub- 

 foveolato ; ihorace quadrato, ad basin transverse depresso, ad 

 angulos anteriores fovea obliqua notato, etiamque ad medium 

 longitudinaliter impresso,flavo-pubescenti; elytris latis, punctato - 

 striatis, ad apicem et ad latera jflavo -pubescentibus et oblique 

 fulvo-notatis ; antennis testaceis ; pedibus flavis. 



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



Ovate, subparallel, tolerably robust ; under a high power of the 

 microscope very finely pubescent ; in colour flavo-ferrugineous. Head 



