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Hedtceea. 



(ZygopiufB.) 



Mostrum elongatum, arcuatum, depressum ; scrohes subbasales. 

 Oculi maximi, supra cotiuntes. Antenncs tenues ; scapo brevis- 

 sinio, gradatim incrassato ; funiculo 7-articulato, longe et sparse 

 piloso, art. primo brevi, incrassato, secundo loiigissimo, tertio 

 prfccedenti breviore, caeteris minus elongatis ; clava ovata, longe 

 pedunculata. Prothorax subcylindricus, apicc tubulatus. Wytra 

 subparallela, pygidium fere tegentia. Pedes mediocres ; femora 

 incrassata, dente magno infra instructa, postice abdomen sn- 

 perantia ; tihice breves, apice uncinata?, postica3 arcuatse ; tarsi 

 parum elongati ; unguiculi liberi. Pima pectoralis ad meta- 

 sternum protensa. Abdomen segmentis tribus intermediis ajqua- 

 libus. 



To these characters it may be added that the episterna of the 

 nietathorax being interposed between the posterior coxae and the 

 elytra, the genus would not fall into any of the three Lacor- 

 dairean '■'■ groupesP Still it is to Piazurus that it is, not very 

 distantly, related. There are two more species in my collec- 

 tion differing considerably in some respects, but having the an- 

 tenna) clothed with similar long delicate hairs, wliich arc well 

 represented in the figure. 



IlEDYCEnA MEGAMERA. (PI. XVIII. fig. 1 1.) //. fusco-bruiinesceiis, 

 squamulis angustis ochraceis nigrisque sparse vestita ; rostro rufo-ca- 

 staneo, nitido, basi sparse squamuloso ; oculi brunnei ; prothorace ob- 

 longo, lateribus antice raodice rotimdato, deinde panic incurvato, pone 

 apiccm gibboso, basi bisinuato, supra modice punctato j scutello ob- 

 longo-ovato, squamulis oclu'aceis dense vestito ; elytris subquadratis, 

 seriatim punctatis, iriterstitiis acute elevatis, punctis squamigeris in 

 impressionibus subquadratis sitis, fusco-subquadrifasciatis ad suturam 

 late interruptis ; infra pedibusque rufo-brunneis. Long. 3^ lin. 



Hah. Cayenne. 



ESSOLITHNA. 



(Leptopsinae.) 



Rostrum crassum, apice excisum ; scrohes apicales, abbreviatse, 

 postice evanescentes. Oculi rotundati. AntefincB breviusculac ; 

 scapo oculum vix superante, incrassato, basi tenuato ; funiculo 

 7-articulato, art. primo quam secundus paulo longiore, caeteris 

 gradatim brevioribus, ultimo tranaverso ; clava parva, vix libera. 

 Prothorax tranaversus, convexus, utriuquo rotundatus, apicc 



