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other minutiffi tlie following species does not agree with the 



diagnosis, but it presents the following characters, which I take 



to be the essential features distinguishing Aparete from the other 



Aterpid genera : — Ocular lobes wanting ; body not cylindric ; 



aerobes terminal or nearly so ; club of antenna; closely united to 



the funiculus ; tarsi having their penultimate joint entire. 



A. nodosa, sp. nov. Sat convexa ; fusco-cinerea, squamis crassis 



(setulisque brevibus) cinereis vestita ; rostro sat brevi supra 



longitudinaliter ooncavo ; capite utrinque supra oculos 



cristato ; prothorace quam latiori sublongiori, pone apicem 



. subfoveatim depresso, vermiculato-ruguloso, postice subtrun- 



cato, antice paullo angustato in medio sat producto, lateribus 



sat rotundatis ; elytris punctulato-striatis, interstitiis con- 



vexis, interstitiis 3° 5° que pone medium (hoc 3 — illo 2 — ) 



7° ad humerum (hoc 1 — ) tuberculatis ; corpore subtus 



sparsim fortiter punctulato. Long., 3 a — 4^ 1.; lat., 



1-1—2 1. 



The basal two joints of tlie antennal funicle are elongate, the 



rest transverse or nearly so, the seventh being considerably 



enlarged and somewhat confused with the club. The metasternum 



is a little shorter than in JSthemaia sellata, Pasc. This species 



differs inter aliairora A. palpehrosa, Pasc, l)y the second joint of 



its funicle not transverse. 



Nilpena, and to the west of that place ; also Cootinooi'ina. 



HYPH^EIA. 



This genus is very briefly characterised by its author (Mr. 



Pascoe), who says that the characters are as in Ethemaia, but 



the third tarsal joint not bilobed. The following species do not 



appear to differ from Ethemaia, except ])y the character 



specified. 



JJ. heltanensis, sp. nov. Minus convexa ; nigra vel fusoa, setis 



brevibus squamisque adpressis colore variis (fuscis nigris et 



albidis) vestita ; rostro sat brevi supra longitudinaliter con- 



cavo, utrinque cristis 2 instructo ; capite utrinque supra 



oculos cristato ; prothorace vix quam latiori longiori, antice 



leviter angustato, late leviter canaliculate, ooriaceo, valde 



inrequali, margine antico antrorsum postico retrorsum con- 



vexis, lateribus leviter arcuatis ; elytris confertim subtiliter 



punctulatis, leviter striatis (striis puncturis magnis seriatis 



instructis), interstitiis minus (alternis paullo magis) con- 



vexis; interstitio 3° tuberculo magno, 5° tuberculis 3, postice 



ornatis ; corpore subtus confertim rugulose reticulato- 



punctulato. Long., 3—3A 1.; lat., 1|— If 1. 



This is an extremely difficult species to describe satisfactorily ; 



probably it may be best distinguished by its generic characters 



