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brownish hairs, which are carried on to the sides of the prothorax, 

 forming a continuous fringe ; nothing so marked occurs in any- 

 other Prionomerin known to me. It is one of Mr. Bates's dis- 



Themeropis fimbriata. (PI. III. fig. 7.) T. umbrina, sparse 

 griseo-pilosa ; rostro subnitido, minus piloso ; antennis flavidis ; 

 fimiculo articulo ultimo davaque, articulo ultimo excepto, infuscatis ; 

 prothorace crebre punctato ; scutello subrotundato ; elytris postice 

 latioribus, lineatim sulcato-punctatis, singulis in medio tuberculo 

 validissimo conico, lateraliter corapresso, instructis ; tibiis tarsisque 

 posticis et intermediis testaceis. Long. 2 lin. 



Hab. Amazons. 



OCHTROMEBA. 



(Prionomerinse.) 



Sostrum elongatura, arcuatum, apicem versus dilatatum ; scroies 

 praemediauae, infra marginem inferiorem oculorum currentes. 

 AntennoB graciles ; funiculus 7-articulatus, articulo prime am- 

 pliato, secundo longiusculo ; clava distincta, magna. OcuU 

 subrotundati, fortiter granulati vel subtenuiter granulati (O. 

 rufescens). ProtJwrax transversus, basi parum bisinuatus. 

 8cutellwn mediocris. Mlytra prothorace manifesto latiora, sub- 

 cordiformia vel subovata. Coxcg anticse contiguse, intermedise 

 approximatse. Femora antica valida, dente integro magno infra 

 armata ; tihice anticse fortiter arcuatse ; femora intermedia et 

 postica minora, infra fortiter dentata ; tihice omnes calcaratse. 

 Abdomen segmentis tribus intermediis subsequalibus. 



It may perhaps be thought necessary hereafter to separate ge- 

 nerically the two rather isolated species describea below. The 

 members of the Prionomerinse are probably numerous, but indivi- 

 dually very scarce both in South America and the Malasian 

 region, where alone they have been hitherto found. 



OcHYROMERA DissiMiLis. (PI. III. fig. 3.) O. fusco-nigra, rostro 

 basi subtiliter lineatim punctato ; oculis rotundatis, fortiter granulatis, 

 antennis infuscatis ; clava sublaxe articulata ; prothorace confertim 

 impresso-punctato ; elytris elongato-cordiformibus, striato-punctatis, 

 interstitiis planatis, impunctatis ; corpore infra fusco-castaneo, griseo- 

 piloso; tarsis subpiceis. Long. 2\ lin. 



Hab. Sarawak. 



The upper surface of this species has a somewhat varnished 



