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the elytra within the lines dotted with small oblong patches 

 of yellow scales ; rostrum slender, curved, ferruginous, with 

 three raised lines anteriorly ; antennas ferruginous, the club 

 black, first joint of the funicle shorter than the second ; pro- 

 thorax closely punctured, a slight carina at the apex ; scutel- 

 lum glossy black ; elytra striate, interstices impunctate ; legs 

 somewhat slender, reddish ferruginous. 



Allied to A. 4-lineatus (Fab.), but broader, more elliptic, 

 with spotted elytra and longer legs, differently coloured. A. 

 rujipes, Kirsch, has, inter alia, a stout rostrum, very slightly 

 curved. In these and several others the elytra are abruptly 

 de flexed on the sides. 



Ambates cretifer. 



A. oblongus, subparallelus, niticle niger ; elytrorum maculis quinque, 

 et prothoracis metathoracisque lateribus, dense albo-squamosis. 

 Long. A\ lin. 



Hob. Chontales. 



Oblong, somewhat parallel at the sides, glossy black ; the 

 sides of the prothorax, five spots on the elytra (one apical 

 and two on each at the sides), and the metathorax, except in 

 the middle, covered with chalky white scales ; rostrum rather 

 slender, slightly elongate, finely punctured ; antennas ferru- 

 ginous, second joint of the funicle twice as long as the first ; 

 prothorax convex above, minutely punctured; scutellum 

 transverse ; elytra not abruptly deflexed at the sides, seriate- 

 punctate, the punctures small, oblong ; beneath glossy black, 

 scaleless, except the sides of the metathorax, and a large 

 space on each side of the third abdominal segment, which are 

 covered with chalky scales ; legs glossy black, the hind tibias 

 on the lower internal edge fringed with white hairs. 



This species has the aspect of a Hilijms, from which it 

 differs generically in its ascending mesothoracic epimera. 



Themeropis divergens. 



1\ fusco-umbrinus, pedibus quatuor posticis omnino rufo-testaceis ; 

 elytris apicem versus gradatim latioribus, singulis pone medium 

 tuberculo conspicuo ad latera instructis. Long. 1^ lin. 



Hab. Parana. 



Opaque umber^brown ; rostrum slightly carinate at the base; 

 eyes not contiguous ; antennas testaceous ; prothorax granu- 

 late-punctate ; scutellum cordate-triangular ; elytra short, 

 much broader towards the apex, the shoulder obliquely 

 angled, sulcate, marked with oblong shining depressions, on 

 each elytron behind the middle and towards the side a 



