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narrowed anteriorly, with narrow and snort side-lobes closely embracing 

 the base of the ligula or labium. A better character still is the form 

 of the thorax, which has a decided basal lobe, the base on each side 

 being obliquely sinuate-truncate. The form of thorax, however, differs 

 much from that of the true Lebice, in which the sides are widely dilated 

 and flattened out. Several Coptoderce show a trace of the basal lobe, 

 and it is doubtful if the present genus can be maintained. The species 

 have precisely the same habits as the Coptoderce. 



Baron Chaudoir himself pointed out the species in my collection 

 belonging to his genus Stenoglossa, none of which agree with the one 

 he described, viz., O. variegata. 



Stenoglossa pallida, n. sp. Flavo-testacea, elytrorum basi fasciaque 

 tenui maculari valde fleocuosa pone medium, nigris, striis fuscis. 

 Long. 3| millim. Lat. elytr. \\ millim. 



Wholly of a testaceous-yellow hue, with the exception of a few slender dusky 

 marks and spots on the elytra ; these consist of a dark border along the base, 

 including the shoulders and irregularly limited posteriorly, a few blackish spots 

 covering the large marginal punctures, and a very flexuous narrow macular belt a 

 little behind the middle ; the striae are all dusky, the colour deepening near the 

 apex ; they are deeply impressed and punctate, with the interstices convex. Thorax 

 transverse quadrate, sides moderately rounded anteriorly, posterior angles promi- 

 nent, base obliquely sinuate-truncate on each side, leaving a broad median lobe. 



Ega, many examples. 



Stenoglossa eulminans, n. sp. Flavo-testacea, capite obscuriori, 

 elytrorum fascia maculari, valde fiexuosa, maculisque apicalibus 

 nigris, striis fuscis. Long. 3| millim. Lat. elytr. 1§ millim. 



Very closely allied to C. pallida, differs in no respects except in the position 

 of the black marks of the elytra ; the base is not black, whilst, on the other hand, 

 there are two black patches at the apex which nearly touch the lowest angle of the 

 flexuous fascia. The head, in the only example I have, is darker than the ground 

 colour of the body ; in five examples of C. pallida, it is of the same clear testaceous 

 yellow as the rest of the body. 



Bahia ; collected by Mr. Eeade. 



Stenoglossa atbiceps, n. sp. Minima, supra flavo-testacea, capite, 



maculis elytrorum prope basin et apicem, fasciaque fiexuosa mediana, 



obscure fuscis; corpore subtus antennisque, basi excepto, fusces- 



centibus, pedibus fmco-nebulosis ; elytris medio valde dilatatis. 



Long. 2| — 3| millim. Lat. elytr. 1| — If millim. 



A minute species, distinguished by its dark brown or black head, and by the 

 flattened margins of the elytra being remarkably dilated about the middle. The 



