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412 MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
elongate ; the second, third, and fourth longer, and nearly equa] to each other in length; 
the fifth a little longer ; the sixth, seventh, and eighth shorter, and decreasing by degrees; 
the club oblong, subcompressed, the base testaceous, the apex black: in the female 
reaching to the base of the thorax; the first article long; the second, third, fourth, and 
fifth about equal, oblong; the sixth, seventh, and eighth subglobose; club as in the 
male. Head with the mouth and sides rufescent. Thorax narrowed in front, the sides 
sometimes rufescent, sometimes concolorous. Elytra rather short, with the apex of each 
rounded both in male and female. Abdomen punctulate. Legs testaceous. 
The males have the thorax with the sides testaceous and the disk piceous. The females 
are entirely black. The colour generally also is darker in the female, the dark colour 
in the male being piceous or piceous black, and that of the female black or nearly so. 
The female has the apex of the elytra rounded like ويلا‎ male, and not peaked as in 
M. discoideus. 
. From Brazil. 
2. Mysrrops 21500101835. (Plate XXXII. fig. 5.) 
d M. flexuosus (Motsch.).. 
9 M. angulipennis (Motsch.). 
Statura M. duri, sed minus fortiter punctatus, minus convexus, antennis aliter com- 
positis elytrisque longioribus; testaceus, thoracis disco longitudinaliter piceo ; scu- 
. tello testaceo ; elytris fascia basali irregulari plus minusve lata picea. Long. 14-13 
lin., lat. $ lin. | 
Fem. do omis Geen bue ut in M. dui 0, > dyes apice acuminatis. 
Habitat prope flumina Amazonum. 
Very like 21. durus, but not so convex nor so il punetate; the elytra me in 
both sexes, and pointed in the female. The antennz have the club composed apparently 
of only two articles, and the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth are not shorter than those 
preceding as in JM. durus. The colour is usually testaceous, with the disk piceous; but 
it varies considerably, chiefly in the extent occupied by the piceous portion: sometimes 
it is nearly of the colour of the males of M. durus, the elytra being almost entirely piceous ; 
but I have never seen them wholly so, the apex being always more or less testaceous. 
Nor have I seen the scutellum piceous : it seems to be always testaceous in this species; 
in M. durus piceous. I have a specimen entirely rufous. 
From the banks of the Amazons. It appears to be not very rare about Ega, where 
Mr. Bates procured a good many specimens. 
In the collection of the Marquis de la Ferté-Sénectére there are three individuals 
ticketed as having come from Caffraria, and named (with a query) Othonea longicornis, 
Dej. I can detect no difference between them and Mr. Bates's specimens from Ega ; and i 
the locality be correct, the species must be found both in Caffraria and South America. 
I think it more likely, however, that an error has been made in the locality, the rather so 
that I observe that the specimens are marked as موس‎ been Moos n cia a dealer whe 
is not always correct in his localities. 
