32 Mr. H. W. Bates on the 



thoracis (H simulante) nigris; elytris paiilo abbreviatis, late 

 truncatis, crebre punctatis. Long. 2|-4 lin. J $ . 



Prov. Rio Janeiro, Brazil {coll. Dr. Baden andH. W. Bates). 



Head tawny testaceous ; occiput, and in female a frontal 

 streak, black; coarsely punctured ; muzzle moderately elongated, 

 not narrowed; eyes in male contiguous in fi'ont, in female 

 widely distant. Antenna3 rather short, filiform, serrate, joints 

 3-5 linear ; tawny testaceous, tips of joints brown. Thorax 

 cylindrical, a little constricted in front and behind, very coarsely 

 punctured ; tawny, with two broad vittas on the disk, joined 

 in the middle by a fascia, black, a black vitta also on each flank. 

 Elytra reaching to the middle of the penultimate ventral 

 segment, moderately nan-owed from near the base and parallel, 

 apex sharply truncate ; colour light tawny brown, thickly but 

 separately punctured. Body beneath yellowish, breast and 

 middle of abdomen black. Legs slender, thighs rather abruptly 

 clavate, hind legs moderately elongate ; testaceous yellow, 

 femoral clava ringed with black, tibiae and tarsi also black. 



A A. Elytra nearly reaching the tip of the abdomen. 



23. Ommata proUxa^ n. sp. 



0. elongata, angusta, setosa, testaceo-nifa ; capite (epistomate ex- 

 cepto), maculis thoracis duabus dorsalibus alteraque utrinque 

 elytrorum humerali, pectore et pedibus nigris, femoribus basi 

 albo-testaceis ; elytris pallide fuscis postice obscurioribus ; an- 

 tennis modice elongatis apice vix incrassatis, nigris, articulis basi 

 palhdis ; thorace antice angustato, supra inaequali, grosse disperse 

 punctato ; elytris subintegris, crebre punctatis, apice oblique trun- 

 catis. Long. 4 lin. 9 . 



Prov. Parand, Brazil [coll. W. W. Saunders). 



Closely allied to 0. cribripennis^ but more elongated, 

 especially the elytra. The eyes (female) are more distant on 

 the forehead, and the space between them is wide, plane, and 

 (like the rest of the head) coarsely punctured. The antennae 

 have the third to fifth joints linear, and the following very 

 gradually thickened, but not produced, at their inner apical 

 angles. The hind legs are very little elongated, and the thighs 

 moderately clubbed. 



24. Ommata lanuginosa, n. sp. 



0. linearis, fulvo-testacea, aureo breviter pubescens, opaca ; occipite, 

 thoracis disco femoribusque (partim) nigris ; antennis filiformibus, 

 articuHs 7°-10''™ vix serratis liaud incrassatis ; thorace cylindrico, 

 snpra longitudinaliter biimpresso, reticulato-punctato ; elytris 



