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cepta) nigi'o-fuscis ; oculis iiigris^ elytris piceo-tinctis, 

 regulariter punctato-striatis. 



Long. 1| lin. 



Hah. — Brazil. 



Head strongly exserted, smooth, impimctate; eyes very 

 large, prominent. Thorax scarcely broader than long ; 

 sides straight, veiy slightly diverging from base to apex ; 

 anterior angles nearly rectangular, their apices obtuse ; 

 basal margin truncate, oblique on either side close to the 

 lateral angle ; the latter distinct, its apex acute ; above 

 transversely convex, smooth and shining, transversely 

 impressed just in front of the basal margin Avith a deep 

 groove, which terminates abruptly on either side close to 

 the lateral border. Elytra broader than the thorax, nar- 

 rowly oblong, slightly attenuated towards the apex ; above 

 moderately convex, flattened along the suture, strongly 

 •punctate-striate ; interspaces plane, impunctate ; surface 

 obscure fulvous, stained at the base, on the outer margin 

 (its apex excepted), and on the inner disk behind the 

 middle, with piceous. 



Genus LoNGiTARSUS, Latr. 

 Longitarsus amazonus. 



Elongato-ovatus, convexus, palllde piceus, nitidus ; 

 elytris, pedibus antennisque piceo-fulvis, harnm articulis 

 intermediis piceis ; elytris distincte sed tenuiter punc- 

 tulatis. 



Long. I — 1 lin. 



Hab. — Para. 



Head elongate-trigonate ; vertex impunctate, seen under 

 a lens faintly striolate; encarpa3 oblong-ovate, oblique, 

 contiguous; carina linear; antenna? nearly equal to the 

 body in length, filiform, 5th to the 8th joints piceous, the 

 rest pale brunneous. Thorax about one-third broader at 

 the base than long; sides slightly rounded, anterior angles 

 very obliquely truncate ; above convex, impunctate. 

 Elytra ovate, broader than the thorax, finely but distinctly 

 punctulate. 



Longitarsus scutellatus. 



Ovatus, convexus, flaAais, nitidus ; labro, scutello, fcmo- 

 rum posticorum apice antennisque (his basi exceptis) 

 obscure piceis; verticc, pectorc, fcmoribus posticis basi 



