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30. Ommata anoguttatay n. sp. 



0. elongato-linearis, supra plana, subtiliter pubescens, fusca, elytris 

 apice macula transversa flava. Long. 5 lin. 5 . 



Prov. Parand, Brazil {coll. W. W. Saunders and H. W. 

 Bates). 



Head fulvo-testaceous, shining, thickly punctui-ed, muzzle 

 elongated ; space between the eyes (female) in front moderate ; 

 occiput black. Antennae more than three fourths the length 

 of the body, slightly thickened and serrate towards the tips, 

 joints three to five linear ; colour pitchy testaceous, basal joints 

 beneath paler. Thorax elongate cylindrical, disk with four 

 tubercles and a median raised wheal, rest of surface ocellate- 

 punctate, black above, central line and sides fulvous. Elytra 

 elongate-linear and plane, leaving the pygidium uncovered, 

 not dehiscent ; apex truncate and tumid on the surface where 

 lies the pale transverse spot ; the surface rather finely and 

 closely rugose-punctate, with soft, inclined, and curly pubes- 

 cense ; colour brown, suture paler. Body beneath dark brown, 

 with golden pubescence; abdominal segments ringed with 

 yellow. Legs tawny testaceous, base of thighs blackish ; 

 hind legs moderately elongated, thighs rather abruptly clavate. 



31. Ommata cegrota, Bates. 

 Odontocera a-grota, Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1872, p. 233. 



Chontales, Nicaragua. 



I described this species as an Odontocera^ following Lacor- 

 daire's definition of the genus ; but the closely punctured and 

 non-vitreous elytra bring it within the genus Ommata^ ac- 

 cording to the classification here adopted. 



32. Ommata Xantho, n. sp. 



0. robustior, pallide flava ; capite, elytris, tibiis, tarsis femoribusque 

 supra nigris, fronte flava ; antennis filiformibus, nigris, articulis 

 Qo_-] Qnm Ij^g^ pallidis ; thorace lateribus paulo rotuudatis, margine 

 antico crasso, rcticulato-puuctato opaco ; elytris subintegris re- 

 ticulato-punctatis, apice oblique truncatis angulo exteriore longe 

 spinoso ; metasterno late nigro-fasciato ; pedibus robustis, femori- 

 bus clongato-clavatis. Long. 4^ lin. c? . 



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



A robust species, with hind legs not disproportionately elon- 

 gated, and filiform antennae, of which the third to fifth joints 

 are linear. 



33. Ommata poicila^ n. sp. 



0. linearis, pallide flava, thoracis macula dorsali, clytrorum macula 



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