Linncean Society. 387 



This insect Mr. Westwood thinks to be probably the female ot 

 A. tuber culatus . 



6. Athyreus bellator ; piceo-niger, capite et pronoto (marginibus ex- 

 ceptis) sublaevibus hnjus marginibus laterahbus pedibusque rufis vel 

 fulvis, clypeo in dentem acutum elongate, pronoto dente elevato bifido 

 pone medium armato. — Long. corp. lin. 10^^. 



Athyreus bifurcatus, Laporte, An. Art. iii. p. 102. pi. 7. f. 3. (nee A. bi- 



furcatus, King, nee A. bifurcatus, MacL.) 

 Athyreus furcifer, Dej. Cat. et Laporte^ An. Art. 1. c. {teste Mas. Gory.) 

 Hah. in Brasilia et Cayenna. In JVIus. D. Hope. 



The j)resent species stands in Mr. Hope's collection as the male 

 of ^. Bilhergii. 



7. Athyreus Bilbergii, Gray in Griffith An. Kingd. ; piceo-niger, tu- 

 berculis minutis scaber, clypei margine antico recto postico carinato 

 et 3-tuberculato tuberculo intermedio magis elevato, angulis laterah- 

 bus capitis ante oculos acutis, pronoto margine antico parum elevato ; 

 disco tuberculis duobus laevibus lineisque duabus curvatis elevatis. — 

 Long. corp. lin. 10. 



Athyreus furcicoUis, Dej. {teste Mus. Gory, nunc Hope.) 

 Hah. in Demerara et Cayenna. In Mus. D. Hope. 



8. Athyreus Pholas, Buquet MS.; piceo-castaneus, lateribus protbo- 

 racis et elytrorura pedibusque rufescentibus, scabriusculus, clypeo an- 

 tice angustato margine antico bituberculato, vertice concavo, protho- 

 racis lateribus dilatatis disco excavatione subquadrat^ spina erectd 

 antica lateribusque acute tuberculatis — Long. corp. lin. 6. 



Athyreus trituberculatus, Gory in Mus. 

 Hab. in Colombia, Santa 1 e de Bogota. In Mus. Hope. 

 Obs. Athyreus recticornis, Guerin, Iconogr. du Regne An. Ins. p. 83, 

 from Swan River (Mus. GoYy)= Bolboceras hastifer, Bainbridge. 



The insect placed in M. Gory's collection, with the label of 

 Athyreus porcatus, De Laporte, Anim. Artie, t. ii. p. 103. no. 6, 

 Athyreus Senegalensis, Dejean, is a new species of Bolboceras, from 

 Senegal. 



9. Athyreus purpureipennis; cyaneo-niger subtus fuIvo-te=taceus, ely- 

 tris laete purpureis, pronoto linea longitudinali impress^ utrinque spa- 

 tio convexo laevissimo nigro versus angulos anticos furcato..^ — Long. 

 Corp. lin. 6. 



Hah. in Americ^ meridionali. In Musaeo Britannico. 



10. Athyreus centralis; testaceo-fulvus, capitis vertice antic^ 3- 

 dentato, pronoto carina abbreviata centrali lineis duabus parum ele- 

 vatis obliquis alteraque utrinque prope angulos posticos, elytris im- 

 presso-striatis striis longe ante apicem evanescentibus. — Long. corp. 

 lin. Q^. 



Hab. in Nov^ Grenada, Rio Magdalena, Ibaque. In Musaeo Britannico. 



11. Athyreus Twredyanus ; testaceus, pronoto maximo lateribus obtuse 

 angulatis et sinuatis medio disci depresso laevi et linea obliqua parum 

 curvata e lateribus separate lineaque altera abbreviata utrinque ver- 

 sus angulos posticos. — Long. corp. lin. 5f . 



Hah. in Insult Hayti, Indiae occidentalis. DD. Tweedy et Hearne. In 

 Muss. Soc. Ent. Londin. et Hope. 



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