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disappearing below the middle ; legs shoi't and robust, the posterior 

 femoi-a strongly incrassate, their tibise with a short spur, broadly- 

 channelled near the apex, tarsi short and broad, claws appendi- 

 culate ; prosternum narrowly elongate, mesosternum subquadrate, 

 the anterior cotyloid cavities open. 



I propose this genus for a robust-looking species of fulvous 

 coloration, which, in the short, transverse joints of the antennae, 

 resembles much the genus Sophraena Baly, but which may be at 

 once distinguished by the elongate and reniform shape of the eyes ; 

 there is also a difference in the proportionate length of the joints 

 of the antennse. In Nephrica Har. the eyes are likewise kidney- 

 shaped, but not to such an extent as in the present genus, and the 

 antennge are filiform. As to Sophraena, Baly did not mention 

 the state of the anterior cotyloid cavities when he described the 

 genus ; Ohapuis in his ' Genera ' has placed the species near 

 Oxygona and states that the cavities are closed. As the opposite is 

 the case in this genus, the latter must find its place near 

 Rhopalotoma Clark, but the genus stands isolated in that group by 

 the shape of the antennae. 



SOPHRAENELLA FULVA, Sp. n. 



Fulvous ; the antennae (the basal joint excepted) black ; thorax 

 finely and closely punctured ; elytra strongly convex, punctured 

 like the thorax. 



Length 7 millim. 



Head very flattened (like that of a Gryptocephalus), impunctate 

 with the exception of a single puncture near the eyes, the latter 

 occupying nearly the entire sides of the head ; frontal elevations 

 absent ; antennae only extending to the base of the elytra, black, 

 the basal joint entirely and the second one partly fulvous ; thorax 

 nearly three times broader than long, the sides ne^irly straight, 

 narrowed anteriorly, the anterior angles oblique, the surface 

 closely and finely punctured, posterior margin rather rounded and 

 produced at the middle ; scutellum broadly ovate ; elytra not wider 

 at the base than the thorax, very closely and scarcely more 

 strongly punctured than the latter. 



Hob. Amazons. 



The resemblance of the head to that of a species of Grypto- 

 cephalus is very striking, if the antennae are not considered. 



Blepharida flavocostata, sp. n. 



Flavous, the antennae, tibiae, and tarsi black ; thorax with five 

 black spots, finely punctured ; elytra closely and strongly punctured, 

 fuscous, each elytron with five narrow, flavous, longitudinal costae ; 

 sides of the breast and abdomen black. 



Length 9 millim. 



Head with the frontal elevations broad and strongly raised, the 

 carina linear ; antennae extending to the middle of the elytra, 

 black, the third and fourth joints equal, the terminal joints shorter; 

 thorax transverse, about twice and a half broader than long, the 



