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not produced ; the eyes arc tolerably large, and situated at the base 

 of the head; the surface -is granulated. Thorax transverse; the 

 anterior angles depressed and obsoletely subacute ; the sides mar- 

 ginate ; near the anterior margin are two faint and obsolete pro- 

 minences, which are caused by a broad subdepression at the base, 

 and also more apparently at the sides ; the surface is clothed at the 

 sides very sparingly with flavous pubescence, and coarsely granu- 

 lated. Scutellum triangular, impunctate. Elytra much broader than 

 the thorax, subglobose, deeply and coarsely punctate-striate, ante- 

 medially transversely subdepressed. Antennce : the basal joint rufo- 

 flavous (the rest are wanting). Legs: the anterior flavous; the 

 posterior femora piceous, the tibiae slightly arcuate near their base ; 

 short, rufo-flavous, the globular inflation of the posterior claw being 

 bright rufous. 



Brazil. 



36. Hypolampsis gibba. 



H. ovalis, robusta, subpubescens, picect ; eapite brevi, subtiliter 

 purictato, piceo ; thorace transverse, oblique depresso ; elytris 

 latis, robustis, punctato-striatis, ad apicem et later a irregulariter 

 rufo-pubescentibus ; antennis brevibus, ad apicem subdilatatis, 

 rufo-piceis, art. basalibus Jlavis ; pedibus Jlavis f tibiis anteriori- 

 bus femoribusque posticis piceo suffv^is. 



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



Oval, robust, finely pubescent, pieeous. Head -not produced in 

 front, transverse ; the eyes are large, lateral, and in form oval, 

 situated near the base of the head ; from the insertion of the an- 

 tennas to the basal line extends a medial longitudinal carination; 

 the surface is finely punctate, and in colour piceous. Thorax trans- 

 verse, rather broader than the head ; the anterior angles depressed 

 and subacute ; the sides broadly marginate ; the anterior angles are 

 much depressed ; from the basal line a broad depression extends 

 obliquely upwards towards the humeral angles ; the surface is finely 

 punctate. Scutellum triangular, situated below the plane of the 

 elytra. Elytra broad, robust, punctate-striate, clothed irregularly 

 near the apex and also at the sides, with rufo-flavous pubescence ; 

 this pubescence forms an obscure oblique band, which is more di- 

 stinct near the margination ; an antemedial transverse depression 

 extends obliquely upwards towards the shoulders. Antenna short, 

 subdilated towards the apex, in colour rufo-piceous, the basal joints 

 being flavous. Legs flavous, the anterior tibiae and the postical femora 

 being suffused with piceous. 



This species is in general form nearly allied to H.porculus; it 



