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joints 3 — 8 gradually decreasing in length, longer than broad, 9 as broad as long, 10 

 transverse, 11 fully twice as long as 10, acuminate ; prothorax as long as broad, the 

 anterior portion as wide as the head, the posterior portion narrower, the anterior 

 portion with traces of a fine impressed median line behind (only visible in certain 

 lights), the sui'face with a few minute widely scattered punctures ; elytra regularly 

 ovate, in the broadest part about two and a half times as wide as the prothorax, 

 with irregular rows of coarse, somewhat distinctly placed punctures, the punctui'es 

 becoming very much finer beyoiid the middle ; beneath ferruginous, the last ventral 

 segment flavous, the ventral segments somewhat coarsely and I'ather thickly punc- 

 tured, the punctuation becoming a little finer towards the apex ; legs flavo-testaceous ; 

 the 5th ventral segment broadly truncate at the apex and unimpressed, and the 

 anterior tibiae with a short triangular tooth on the inner side about the middle, in 

 the male. Length 3, breadth, 1^ mm. 



Hab. : Colombia. 



Oue example in Mr. F. Bates's collection, and two others in that 

 of M. Rene Oberthiir, the latter labelled with the misleading general 

 locality " Bogota " (Petersen). 



Mr. Bates's specimen is ticketed with a printed label (apparently 

 cut out from a price list), Tomoderus palJidicornis, Schauf. ; but this 

 name, so far as I am aware, is an unpublished one. The description 

 is taken from two male examples ; the third specimen is not at hand 

 for examination. The pubescence is easily abraded, and in one ex- 

 ample it is almost entirely rubbed off. The antennae extend to far 

 beyond the base of the elytra. Tomoderus excavatus and T. canaliculatus, 

 Ch., from Central America, are of about the same size as H. jjallidi- 

 cornis ; but they have the terminal dorsal segment ungrooved, the 

 elytral humeri well marked, the body winged, &c., and, in short, possess 

 all the structural characters of Tomoderus as defined by La Ferte, 

 Lacordaire, and other authors. 



HOLCOPTGE MERIDIOlSrALIS. 



Closely allied to, but much smaller than, II. j^allidicornis, from which it differs 

 as follows : — The antennae shorter and very much stouter, joints 8 and 9 as broad 

 as long, 10 transverse, 11 twice as long as 10, acuminate ; the anterior portion of the 

 prothorax very distinctly and rather deeply canaliculate ; the 5th ventral segment 

 with a large, shallow, triangular depression in the middle in the male, the anterior 

 tibiiB merely a little thickened in this sex, and without trace of a median triangular 

 tooth. Length 2^, breadth, 1 mm. 



Hah. : Venezuela, Caracas. 



Two examples of this species were captured by Dr. O. Thieme at 

 Caracas in May or June, 1877. The description is taken from a male 

 specimen, and there is a second in M. Obcrthiir's collection. 



11, Caldervale Road, Clapham : 

 October 1890. 



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