CERAMBYCIDiE. ISM 



the terminal joints gradually thickening. Thorax nearly as broad 

 as long, with a more or less thick golden pubescence ; a dorsal 

 transverse band in some lights appears brown and free from 

 hairs ; a small smooth spot on the back. Elytra short, reaching 

 to the middle of abdomen, palish yellow, the tails somewhat 

 thickened and rounded at the end ; a largish elongated brown 

 blotch from the shoulder extends half way down the margin ; 

 this blotch and part of the base is punctured. Femora of hind 

 legs longly clavate, base paler ; an elongated tuft of black hairs 

 extends round the tibia of hind legs near the tip. 

 Hab. Amazon (Santarem) (Coll. W . B. Bates). 



13. Odontocera compressipes, n. s. B.M. 



O. lutea; capite flavo, gula mento et vertice nigris; antennis 

 ferrugineis articulis 1 et 2 intus nigro lineatis ; thoracis mar- 

 gine antica et annulo transverso, in dorso crassiores, nigris ; 

 elytris vitreis luteis, basi scabris nigro variegatis, apice oblique 

 truncatis ; tibiis posticis apice subdilatatis nigris hirtulis. 

 Long. lin. b\. 



Head with the face and cheeks bright yellow ; eyes large, but 

 separated by a wide space in front, which has an impressed line 

 down the middle running into a fovea ; vertex and under side of 

 head black ; antennas ferruginous, terminal joints hardly thick- 

 ened ; two basal joints with a black line on the inside. Thorax 

 distinctly and closely punctured, as long as wide, fore part mar- 

 gined with black ; a black ring round the thorax, which is thicker 

 on the middle of the back. Elytra vitreous, depressed, extend- 

 ing considerably beyond the middle of abdomen, somewhat ob- 

 liquely truncated at the end, edges thickened and margined with 

 pale ferruginous ; base scabrous, shoulder ferruginous, an irre- 

 gular oblique black line rising from near the shoulder runs down 

 the suture beyond the scutellum. Legs pale ferruginous, femora 

 of fore legs on the outside in the middle brownish ; tarsi of hind 

 legs flattened, compressed and somewhat dilated at the end, and 

 clothed with blackish hairs. 

 Hab. Amazon (Santarem) (Coll. W. B. Bates). 



14. Odontocera pcecilopoda, n. s. B.M. 



O. nigra, elytris vitreis pallidis nigro-marginatis ; abdominis basi 

 subtus et apice pallidis ; pedibus nigris, femorum tibiarumque 

 basi alba ; tibiis posticis pilis nigris hirtis. 

 Long. lin. 5£. 



Head black, a depressed triangular space on the face with 

 some greyish hairs ; eyes very large, nearly meeting in front ; 



