358 Mr. G. C. Champion oti various 



dentate and 4 angulate at tlie inner apical angle. Ventral 

 segment 5 aicuato-emarginate, 6 conical. Tegmen flattened, 

 simple, narrow, rounded and entire at the tip. Penis-sheath 

 slender, the outer portion straight, abruptly pointed at the 

 apex. 



Length 9^-10-^, breadth 4^ ""»'• (c? 9 •) 

 Bab. Colombia [$] and Venezui^la [cJ] (.1/^/5. Brit.). 

 One pair, acquired by the Museum in 1844, the cJ bearing 

 an inapplicable MS. name. The dissimilarity in the shape 

 of ihe elytia in the two sexes, the elytra themselves being 

 sharj)ly costate laterally in both ot' them, the peculiarly 

 fornuHl anterior and intermediate tarsi o£ the ^ (suggestive 

 of the Palsearctic genus Ilenicojms)^ and the simple, narrow 

 tegmen in the same sex, are characters o£ insufficient import- 

 ance to remove A. correptus from Astylus. The (^, which 

 must be taken as the type, has the facies of an Omopldus. 



29. Astylus forcipatu.^, sp. n. 



Moderately elongate, narrow, feebly shining, clothed with 

 long, erect, bristly liairs intermixed with adpressed, scattered, 

 cinereous pubescence, the vestiture of the under surface long, 

 cinereous ; black, with a ^faint brassy tinge, the antennne, 

 tibiae, and tarsi testaceous; the elytra flavous, each with two 

 broad vittee extending from the base to the apical declivity 

 (one dorsal, the other submarginal), and a spot before the 

 apex, black ; closely, finely, the dark portions of the elytra 

 rugulosely, punctate, the punctiues on the flavous portions 

 conspicuous, and uniseriatcly arianged within the dorsal and 

 marginal ridges. Head broad, the eyes large, prominent ; 

 antennae moderately long. Prothorax transverse, narrowed 

 anteriorly, canaliculate on the disc. Elytra ])arallelj bicostatCj 

 the inner costa stout, the submarginal one narrow, the apices 

 obtuse. 



(J . Terminal dorsal segment of abdomen with a long, 

 stout, flattened, slightly sinuate process on each side, which 

 is blunt at the tip and clothed witii very long blackish hairs. 

 Ventral segment 5 shallowly aicuato-emarginate, 6 short, 

 deeply, triangularly excised. Tegmen narrow, truncate at 

 the apex. Penis-slieath flattened, acuminate and somewhat 

 spoon-shaped at the tip. 



Length 4^-5^, breadth 1^-2 mm. 



Hah. Brazil {ex coll. Fry). 



Two males, injured by pinning, and both having t!ie 

 genital armature extruded. A sujaU naii(;\\, parallel-sided 



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