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the base ; a third extending as a broad fascia behind the middle 

 to the suture ; and a fourth, small and transverse, near the apex : 

 the lateral spots are sometimes united on the extreme margin. 

 Body beneath and legs clothed with grey pile; club of hind 

 femora slender. 



Ega; on dry twigs in the forest. 



6. Lepturges inscriptus, n. sp. 



L. oblongus, subdepressus, griseus, fusco Isete variegatus : thoracis 

 spinis lateralibus prope angulos posticos sitis : elytris oblongo- 

 ovatis, apice sinuato-truncatis, griseis, plagis maculisque fuscis 

 notatis. Long. 3^ lin, $ . 



Head reddish brown. Antennae reddish, extreme tips of the 

 joints (from the third) black. Thorax regularly widened poste- 

 riorly; the spines situated near the hind angles, very acute and 

 directed obliquely outwards ; the surface finely punctured, grey- 

 ish, with the sides and two dorsal vittse brownish. Elytra 

 oblong-ovate, briefly sinuate-truncate, with the angles obtuse; 

 the surface finely punctured, slightly convex, grey, with various 

 patches of a reddish-brown hue, — the patches consisting of a 

 spot in the middle of the base, an elongate hooked spot on the 

 side at the base, a lateral twin spot behind the middle, a V-like 

 spot in the middle near the suture, and an oblique zigzag fascia 

 between these latter and the apex. Body beneath and legs 

 reddish brown. Legs rather slender ; all the thighs slenderly 

 clavate. 



S. Paulo, Upper Amazons. 



7. Lepturges candicans, n. sp. 



L. oblongus, subdepressus, canescens : elytris pone medium fasciis 

 duabus fuscis ad suturam convergentibus ornatis. Long. 3j lin. $ . 



Head clothed with hoary pile. Antennee reddish, clothed 

 with hoary pile. Thorax not much widened posteriorly, the 

 spines placed near the posterior angles, the disk with a few 

 scattered punctures, and clothed uniformly with hoary pile. 

 Elytra oblong, the sides rounded and rather enlarged behind the 

 middle, the tip sinuate-truncate, both angles slightly produced 

 and acute ; the surface punctured, hoary, with two irregular 

 brown fasciae behind the middle converging on the suture ; the 

 anterior fascia is broken towards the sides, and a narrow line 

 connects the two in the middle ; besides these fascise, there is a 

 V-shaped brown mark in the middle of the base on each elytron 

 and a streak on each side from the base to the middle. Body 

 beneath and legs reddish, clothed with hoary pile. Thighs slen- 

 derly clavate. 



Ega. 



