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hinder angles acute, anterior obtuse; surface finely but distinctly 

 punctured, transversely sulcate in front of the basal lobe ; disk 

 glabrous, sides and extreme base clothed with adjoressed coarse 

 white hairs. Scutellum trigonate, cupreo-aeneous, its surface 

 finely punctured. Elytra deej^ly and coarsely punctured, the 

 punctures irregularly arranged in longitudinal stria?, interspaces 

 on the middle disk transveisely wrinkled. 



Theniesia grant/is, mihi. 



Late oblonga, lajte viridi-a?nea, nitida, supra glabra, subtus 

 dense albido-tomentosa. antennis nigris, labro fulvo. Long. 

 .HHn. 



Hab. Brazil, a single specimen, formerly in the collection of 

 the late A. DeyroUe. 



Body above entirely glabrous, -with the exception of some 

 adpressed hairs on the head, and a very few others near the 

 anterior angles of the thorax. Head closely punctured, strigose- 

 punctate on the vertex ; face concave between the eyes; labrum 

 subquadrate, transverse, not distinctly separated from the face, 

 fulvous, its sides thickened, its anterior edge emarginate ; jaws 

 prominent; antennte black. Thorax neaidy twice as broad as 

 long; sides broadly rounded at the base, then obliquely converg- 

 ing to the apex, anterior angles broadly truncate, hinder angles 

 obsolete ; above transversely convex at the base, sub-cyhndrical 

 at the apex, obliquely and broadly excavated towards the sides, 

 the latter refiexed ; surface finely and closely punctured, the 

 piuictures stronger and sj)arser on the disk, entirely glabrous, 

 with the exception of a very few coarse adpressed whitish hairs 

 just behind the anterior angles. Scutellum pentangular, its 

 apex acute, its surface smooth, remotely punctured. Elytra 

 much broader than the thorax, the humeral callus j^rominent ; 

 sides obhquely converging from base to apex, the latter rounded : 

 above convex, shghtly depressed transversely below the humeral 

 callus, finely and somewhat closely jjunctured. 



Similar in form to 7\ ain-icajiiUa, but twice its size and easily 

 separated l^y the al^sence of the dense ]:)nbescence clothing the 

 base and sides of the thorax. 



Meijalostoiiiis geiierosa, mihi. 



Oblonga, sub-cylindrica $ , magis ovata $ , supra tenuiter, 

 subtus cum thoracis lateribus dense fiavo pubesceus, picea, 

 ])edibus pallide rufo-piceis, genubus, tarsis antennisque nigris ; 

 elytris laete testaceis, fascia prope medium et utrisque plaga 



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