146 
£E. deren sp. nov. Piceus, pube picea albaque variega- 
rum scutellum que dense vestienti et in elytris 
iilii i magnam quadratam communem formanti; antennis 
perpaucis interrupta et ad latera crenulata. Long., 34 1.; 
lat., 13 1. 
The common white spot on the elytra is so densely — 
that the underlying sculpture is entirely concealed. The spot 
occupies in its front all the width between the seventh irasi ah 
of the two elytra but narrows a little to its apex where it occu- 
pies the width between the two fifth interstices. Its front margin 
is a little behind the base of the elytra but in its middle runs for- 
ward triangularly to the scutellum ; its sides are somewhat zig- 
zagged, being cut into most conspicuously by a black spot a little 
behind the middle; its apex (a little in front of the hind decliv- 
ity) is areuately and irregularly emarginate and its surface is 
interrupted by a few very small black spots. The red pubescence 
near the apex of the elytra is not entirely confined to the fourth 
interstices but appears as spots on some of the other interstices, 
and there is also a little white pubescence near the apex. The 
third and fifth interstices of the elytra are a little more strongly 
elevated near the base than in the middle of their length. It is 
(as already noted) very probable that Tropideres musivus, Er., a nd 
sgh ges Er., are congeneric with this insect. Assuming them 
to insect differs from them specifically, —from musivus, 
inter alia, “ag its Sopsiernyy larger size, by its not having three 
fascicles of pubescence on its prothiorax and by the proportions of 
its antennal scat. —from albuginosus, inter alia multa, by its 
antenne not long enough to reach the s of the prothorax. 
Victoria; sent to me by Mr. Kers 
EPARGEMUS (gen nov. pedet 
Caput. transversum ; rostrum planum, depressum, quam latius 
vix longius, cum capite n inuum, mox ante 
in angustatum (et hic quam inter oculos caput sub- 
NM hine antrorsum ad api gradatim dilatatum, 
anti 
oblique een (ut sulci male definiti) productis; ante 
sat robuste, prothoracem medium vix s superstes, articulis 
