1889. ] NEW SPECIES OF EROTYLID. 615 
4. AMBLYSCELIS ’ FERRUGINEUS, Sp. nov. 
Elongatus, postice subangustatus, totus ferrugineus, subnitidus, 
supra crebre subtiliter, infra crebre fortius punctatus ; elytris 
striatis, striis subtilissime crenulatis, interstitiis minute 
punctatis. 
Long. 73-8 millim. 
Hab. S. Africa (Natal) (coll. Gorham, Mus. Leyden) (Finsch). 
Head with the front thickly, the crown more sparsely but more 
deeply punctured, the front edge of the epistome angularly but not 
deeply emarginate. The antenne not reaching the base of the 
thorax, their club fuscous. Thorax transverse, the disc rather 
convex and the front angles depressed, finely but thickly punctured. 
Elytra with the humeral callus more distinct than in A. natalensis, 
Crotch, widest at the base, the interstices flat, except near the callus, 
where the strize are deeper. The legs are as in A. natalensis, the 
thighs rather stout and compressed, the tibize very strongly tri- 
angularly widened near the apex, and setose externally at this part. 
Episterna and sides of the metasternum rather strongly punctate. No 
abdominal lines. 
I received about a dozen specimens of this insect from the Rev. 
Canon Fowler, who obtained them from Boucard’s collections ; also 
one specimen communicated from Mr. Ritsema. 
5. BrRaCHYSPHENUS EGENSIS, sp. nov. (Plate LXI. fig. 8.) 
Oblongo-ovatus, parum conveaus, pallide castaneus, nitidus ; 
elytris nigris, tenuiter flavo-marginatis, sutura et limbo laterali 
angustius fuscis, distincte punctato-striatis; antennis fuscis, 
articulis tribus basi pedibusque rujis. 
Long. 8 millim. 
Hab. Amazons, Ega (Bates); Guiana, Cayenne (Reiche; coll. 
Crotch). 
Head and thorax very even and nearly smooth, yet not glabrous, 
owing to being very finely alutaceous and with indistinct stellate 
punctuation ; the latter is at the base twice as wide as long, narrower 
in front; the sides rounded, the excavation in front rather deep and 
its base straight ; prosternum much compressed, so as to be distinctly 
carinate in front, yet not projecting. Elytra widest a very little 
below the base, narrowed to the apex, the black discoidal plagia 
extending very evenly from the second to the seventh stria; beyond 
which, on the yellow margin, there is only the least trace of an 
eighth stria, near the apex usually about eight punctures. Meta- 
sternal and abdominal lines are distinct, the former long and reflexed 
but fine. 
Two specimens in Mr Armitage’s collection, and two in the 
Cambridge collection. May be placed next B. cordiger. 
6. BRACHYSPHENUS UCAYALENSIS, sp. nov. (Plate LXI. fig. 6.) 
Oblongo-ovatus, rubidus, verticis puncto thoracisque punctis 
decem nigris; elytris nigris, juxta scutellum macula angusta 
Amblyscelis, Gorham, Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. x. 1888, p. 144. 
