38 Mr. H. W. Bates on the 



3. Odontocera clara^ n. sp. 

 0. valde elongata, nigra; thorace aurantiaco-flavo, pectore abdo- 

 mineque cinereo-tomentosis ; elytris disco omnino vitreo albo- 

 testaceo. Long. 5|-7| lin. c? $ • 



Cliontales, Nicaragua [coll. T. Belt and H. W. Bates). 



An elongate narrow species, similar in form to 0. chrysostetJia^ 

 but resembling 0. vittipennis in colours. Head black, shining, 

 scabrous-punctate; muzzle elongate and narrow. Antennae 

 long and filiform, moderately serrate from the sixth joint, 

 shining black ; extreme base of joints 7 to 11 pallid, 

 especially in the male. Thorax long, cylindi'ical, gradually 

 narrowed in front, orange-testaceous, moderately shining, 

 closely subreticulate-punctate, with a short, smooth, raised 

 dorsal line on the fore part of the disk. Elytra reaching to 

 the middle of the fourth segment, moderately naiTOwed behind 

 the base, thence parallel to the apex, which is sharply truncate, 

 with the angles prominent ; sm-face pallid brownish and glassy, 

 faintly punctulate ; margins (except the basal) narrowly black 

 and coarsely punctured. Meso- and metastema and abdomen 

 black, clothed with a laid ashy pile ; metastemum moderately 

 voluminous, and abdomen linear, coarsely punctm'ed. Legs 

 much elongated, black, shining; all the femora rather gradually 

 clavate ; hind pair reaching the tip of the abdomen. 



This is one of the latest discoveries of Mr. Thomas Belt. 



4. Odontocera colon, 

 Agaone colon, Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 319. 

 R. Amazons. 



5. Odontocera vionostigmay Bates. 

 Affaone monostigma, Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 384, 

 Chontales, Nicaragua. 



6. Odontocera parallela, White. 

 Odontocera parallela, White, Cat. Long. Col. Brit. Mus. p. 189. 

 R. Amazons. 



7. Odontocera mellea, White. 

 Odontocera mellea, White, Cat. Long. Col. Brit. Mus. p. 188. 

 R. Amazons. 



8. Odontocera chrysostetka, Bates. 

 Odontocera chrysostetha, Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 320. 

 R. Amazons. 



