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but differs in the stout rosti-um, the conical prothorax, with the 

 elytra at the base considerably broader than the base of the 

 prothorax, &c. The brown parts under a strong lens are seen 

 to be sprinkled with minute scales. * 



Amalthus insignis. (PI. VII. fig. 4.) A. ovalis, cinnamomeo-fusca, 

 squamulis flavescentibus condensatis maculas speciosas formantibus ; 

 capite antice subdepresso j rostro squamoso, apicetu versus nigro uitido j 

 antennis nigris, sparse setulosis j prothoraee utrinque in medio calloso, 

 deinde paulo incurvato, basi latiore, lateribus apieeque flavescentibus ; 

 scutello elevate, rotundato ; elytris quara latitudine plus sesquilongio- 

 I'ibus, remote seriatim punctatis, sutura postica, inteistitiisquc 3. 5. 7. 

 elevatis, illo quadri-, secundo trifasciculato, fasciculis brevibus elon- 

 gatis, singulatim macula basali, altera pone humerum, tertiaque irre- 

 gulari postice ornatis ; corpore infra fusco-brunneo, in medio flavo- 

 squamuloso ; pedibus fulvo-squamosis, fusco-aniiulatis. Long. G liu. 



Hab. Morty. 



DosTES. 

 (Cryptorhynchinae.) 



Mostrum validum, arcuatum, squamosum ; scrobes antemedianse, 

 obliqufB, infra marginem inferiorem oculorum terminantes. 

 Scopus oculum attingens ; funiculus 6-articulatus, brevius- 

 culus, articulis duobus basalibus longiusculis, cseteris transver- 

 sis ; clava cylindrica, elongata, pubescens (ut videtur) inarticu- 

 lata. OcuU laterales, rotundati, tenuiter granulati. Frothorax 

 subconicus, apice productus gibbosus, lobis ocularibus nullis. 

 Elytra ampla, prothoraee midto latiora, utrinque subparallela, 

 humeris rotundata. Pedes breves ; femora incrassata, infra 

 dente instructa ; tibicd rectse, tarsi articulis duobus basalibus 

 angustis breviusculis, tertio lato, quarto modice elongate. 

 Rima pectoi'alis inter coxas anticas terminata, apice fornicata. 

 Metasternum elongatum. Abdomen normale. Processus inter- 

 coxalis triangularis. 

 A very distinct genus, for which I am at present unable to 



suggest any alliance. My specimen is probably a female ; the 



other sex might show that its affinities were with the Mecistosty- 



lus group. 



DcETES ALBO-PiCTUS. (PI. VJII. fig. 6.) D. ovatus, squamositate 

 atra, niveo-maculata, dense indutus ; capite nigro, supra oculos niveo, 

 fronte profunde longitudinahter sulcato j rostro uti-inque vitta obliqua 

 nivea ornato ; antennis piceis j prothoraee subtransverso, antice valde 

 constricto, postice utrinque parallelo, gibbo apicali in medio fortiter 



