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subcontiguae ; pedes modici, inter se sat sequales ; tarsi sat 

 elongati, articulo basali quam 2 US sat longiori, 3° in 2° 

 inserto ; unguiculi subtus dente parvo armati ; metasternum 

 modicum (quam segmentum rentrale basale paullo longius); 

 pygidium manifestum ; eorpus pubescens. 

 The insect for which I propose this generic name cannot be 

 -referred to any existing genus that I can discover. In Lacor- 

 daire's classification its place is in the " Groupe " Tropiderides. 

 In his tabulation of the genera of that groupe its place is doubt- 

 ful, the ante-basal carina of its pronotum having its convexity 

 iorward, but not nearly so strongly as in the genera he places in 

 the aggregate distinguished by that character. Among them 

 the tabulation would make it Hypseus (though its eyes are 

 scarcely " very finely" granulate) — but Hypseus has very different 

 antennae, and eyes converging on the forehead. If the forward 

 arch of the carina be regarded as too slight to place the insect in 

 the Hypseus aggregate, Lacordaire's tabulation would make it 

 doubtfully an Apatenia, — but that genus has eyes and antennae 

 like those of Hypseus, — inter alia joints 9 and 10 of the antennae 

 being equal to each other. The most striking character of the 

 insect before me consists in there being only two joints in the 

 club of its antennae, joint 9 evidently belonging to the funiculus 

 and being not much longer and wider than the eighth joint. 

 -Judging by the ventral segments (less convex and not overlap- 

 ping the edge of the pygidium in one, — more convex and just 

 covering the edge of the pygidium in another) I think I have both 

 sexes before me, and if so there is little or no superficial sexual 

 difference. 



E. biyibbosus, sp. no v. Oblongus ; piceus pube cinerea ochrea 

 brunneaque rariegata, antennis (clava excepta) pedibusque 

 (his f usco-variegatis) rufeseentibus ; capite rostro pronotoque 

 crebre subtilius rugulosis ; hoc in disco paullo pone medium 

 tuberculis 2 magnis faseiculatis ornato ; elytris confertim 

 subtilissime subaspere punctulatis, subtiliter punctulato- 

 striatis, interstitiis alternis quam cetera vix magis elevatis 

 (3° pone basin et in medio, 5° ante apicem, tuberculis singulis 

 faseiculatis ornatis) et fasciculis parvis pilosis variegatis. 

 Long., 2 1.; lat., | 1. 



This insect is easily recognisable by the presence, on either side 

 -of the middle line of the pronotum, of a large tubercle bearing a 

 fasciculus of hairs. There is a smaller fasciculated tubercle near 

 the base and another about the middle of the 3rd elytral in- 

 terstice, and also another near the apex of the 5th interstice. 

 There are also very small fascicles (beneath which the derm is 

 scarcely tuberculate) on the alternate interstices, most con- 

 spicuous on the subsutural interstice and becoming gradually less 



