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short, transverse ; above the base of the antennae is an obsolete and 

 short longitudinal fovea; the surface is finely pubescent. Thorax 

 quadrate, rectilinear; the anterior angles are depressed, the sides 

 marginate ; at the base is a distinct and broad transverse channel ; 

 near the anterior angles are two slight oblique depressions, while a 

 very faint longitudinal impression extends medially from the apex to 

 the base ; the surface is finely flavo-pubescent. Scutellum triangular, 

 ferrugineous. Elytra broad, tolerably robust, punctate-striate, the 

 striae being subsinuate ; a medial transverse depression gives an ap- 

 pearance of prominence to the base ; the surface at the apex and 

 near the margins is navo-pubescent, and in colour nigro -ferrugineous, 

 the margins and the apex being irregularly flavous, and marked in 

 an obliquely transverse direction by short subsinuate bands of darker 

 flavous. Antennce filiform, in colour testaceous, the two basal joints 

 being ferrugineous. Legs flavous throughout. 



From the Island of St. Catherine, Brazil. In the collection of 

 M. Deyrolle. 



28. Hypolampsis vicina. 



H. oblong o-ovata, subcylindrica, subparallela, subtiliter pubescens, 

 flavo-fusca; capite brevi, depresso, inter oculos oblique foveolato, 

 granulato ; ihorace transverso, basin versus subconstricto ; elytris 

 sat latis, punctato-striatis ; antennis ad apicem subincrassatis, 

 flams, art. 6-8 fuscls ; pedibus flams, femoribus posticis fuscis, 

 tibiisque rufls. 



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



Oblong-ovate, subcylindrical, subparallel, very finely pubescent, of 

 a flavo-fuscous colour. Head short, depressed almost at right angles 

 to the thorax, not produced in front ; at the base of the antennae are 

 two minute oblique depressions extending to the upper and inner 

 margins of the eyes, forming together the character of the letter V ; 

 the surface is finely granulated and subpubescent, more distinctly so 

 at the base. Thorax transverse (almost quadrate), slightly constricted 

 towards the base; the sides are submarginate, more broadly near 

 the anterior angles; at the basal angles is a minute depression. 

 Scutellum triangular, fuscous. Elytra distinctly broader than the 

 thorax, tolerably robust, deeply punctate-striate, and when viewed 

 under a high power covered with a short flavous or ashy-grey pubes- 

 cence. Antennce filiform, slightly incrassated at the apex ; the joints 

 one to five flavous, six to eight fuscous, nine to eleven flavo-testaceous, 

 the apical joint being suffused with fuscous. Legs tolerably robust ; 

 the anterior flavous throughout ; the posterior femora darkly fuscous, 

 and the tibiae rufous. 



Columbia. In the collection of M. Chevrolat. 



