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backwards into a flattened acute tooth ; apex obtusely rounded, 

 apical margin slightly dilated, its outer edge serrate; above 

 flattened along the suture ; each elytron with four raised costae, 

 the third obsolete in the middle, suture also elevated, interstices 

 each with a double row of deep, large, regular punctures. Be- 

 neath bright fulvous ; pleurse, limb of abdomen, and the legs 

 black ; on the under surface of all the thighs, near their base, is 

 a fulvous spot. 



Collection of Mr. Bates ; also in my own cabinet. 



Uroplata pectoralis, n. sp. 



U. late oblonga, |)OBtice ampliata, subdepressa, obscure flava, sub- 

 nitida ; antennis obscure fulvo-piceis ; pectore, tibiarum apice tar- 

 sisque nigro-piceis : elytris obsolete fusco maculatis, humeris mo- 

 dice lateraliter productis apice subacutis, apice obtuse rotundatis, 

 fortitcr serratis, angulo postico in laminam compressam bispiuo- 

 sam modice lateraliter productis ; utroque prope suturam bicos- 

 tato, interspatiis rude ct profunde biseriatim punctatis ; disco 

 exteriore profunde confuse punctato, interstitiis elevato-reticulatis. 



Long. 3 lin. 



Hab. Brazil. 



Head moderately produced between the eyes, vertex smooth, 

 impressed with a deep longitudinal groove; antennae equal in 

 length to the head and thorax, subincrassate, two basal joints 

 slightly thickened, third slightly elongate, fourth and fifth gra- 

 dually decreasing in length, the sixth scarcely half the length of 

 the fifth, the seventh nearly equal to the third, somewhat thick- 

 ened, and, together with the four following joints (which are 

 closely united, but have their sutural lines distinctly visible 

 under a lens), forming a narrow club ; apical joints acute. 

 Thorax nearly twice as broad at the base as long, sides narrowly 

 margined, crenulate, nearly straight at the base, narrowed and 

 rounded in front ; upper surface transversely impressed on the 

 hinder disk, transversely excavated on the basal lobe, the latter 

 broadly truncate, stained on either side with a piceous spot; 

 middle of disk in front nearly impunctate, finely strigose, sides 

 coarsely and deeply rugose-punctate. Scutellum large, trian- 

 gular, broad at the base, its apex truncate. Elytra much broader 

 at their base than the thorax; humeral callus thickened, not 

 raised above the surface of the elytra, but produced horizontally, 

 its apex subacute, not extending beyond the lateral border. Apex 

 of tibia* thickened. 



Uroplata Sthlei, n. sp. 

 U. subelongata, subcuneiforniis, subdepressa, rufo-fulva ; capite su- 

 pra (plaga verticali excepta) thoracisque margine laterali nigris : 

 elytris apice obtusis, angulo postico vix prominulo, apice rotundato; 



