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Ml. G. ('. Clianipi.>n on various 



cinereous ; black, the basal joints of the antennae red, the 

 elytra each with four longitiulinally arranged spots on the 

 disc — one at the base, Jiciiniinalc-oval, one, oblong or slightly 

 ol)li<|iie, one, rounded or subtriangulnr, and one, transverse, 

 sulj.ipical, the anterior two sometimes coalescent — and the 

 outer margin to near the apex, flavous or orangc-yelluw ; 

 tlie head and profhorax closely, finely, the elytra roughly, 

 punctured. Head small, the eyes lather large ; antennae 

 .short. Prothorax narrowed anteriorly. Elytra long, sub- 

 ])arallel, sharply costate from the humeral callus downward, 

 and also feebly costate on the disc ; the apices in $ feebly 

 truncate or rounded, in ? more or less emarginate, and with 

 the sutural and outer angles dentiform. 



(J . Metasternum with two small, compressed, subcon- 

 tiguoiis tubercles in the middle behind. Ventral segment 5 

 deeply arcuato-emarginate, 6 long, compressed. Tegmen 

 simply l)ifurcate and clothed with long, projecting blackish 

 hairs at the tip. Penis-slieatli drawn out into a long, slender 

 point at the apex. 



Length 5^-fi, breadth 2-iV-2i mm. (c? ? •) 



Hab. Colombia {M'(s. Brit.), Carthagena {Dcjean Gat.) ; 

 VENiiZUELA (fx coll. Fry). 



Described from eight examples, four of each sex. The 

 teeth at the apex of the elytra in ? vary in length, and the 

 tirst and second spots on the disc are confluent in two of ther 

 specimens of that sex before me. This is the undescribed 

 smaller Colonil)ian form alluded to by Gorham in his descrip- 

 tion of A. octopusUilatus. There is nothing intermediate in 

 the long series of the latter examined, and the present 

 insect may be distinguished from it by the elongated first 

 and second spots on the disc of the elytra, approaching 

 A. gor/iami in this respect. The genital armature is very 

 similar. A. lehasi is not mentioned by Pic in any of his 

 various scattered papers on Astylua. 



Eloncr^te, narrow, si 



37. Aslylus hamatilis, sp. n. 



shilling, clothed with erect, black, 



bristly hairs intermixed with scattered fine adpiessed 

 cinereous pubescence, which is denser on the prothorax and 

 elytral suture of ? , the vestiture of the legs and under 

 surface cinereous ; black, the basal joints of the antennae 

 partly red, the elytra each with four kngitudinally-arranged 

 marks on the disc — one, pyriform, at the base, one, angulate 

 or A -shaped, one, rounded or subtriangular (connected out- 



