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LAMIID^E. 



the base with several scattered small warts ; under side banded 

 with black, tip of abdomen pale. Tibiae and tarsi ochraceous, 

 the tibiae tipped with black; the femora on the under side 

 blackish. 



Length 4 to 5£ lines. 

 Hab. Brazil (Ega). 



4. Anisocerus capucinus. B.M. 

 A. ater, genis miniaceo vittatis ; scutello nigro ; elytris miniaceis, 



fasciis tribus transversis et macula ante apicem nigris, sutura 

 nigra. 



Compsosoma capucinum, White, Ann. fy Mag. Nat. Hist, xviii. 



t. l.f. 7. 

 Hab. Brazil (Para) (J. P. George Smith, Esq.). 



5. Anisocerus dulcissimus, n.s. B.M. 



A. ater, genis miniaceo vittatis ; elytris sulphureis seu albido- 

 flavescentibus ; fascia basali angusta et scutello miniaceis, 

 fascia lata ante medium obscuro-miniaceo ; marginibus apicali 

 et laterali miniaceis ; punctis quatuor nigris in parte postica 

 elytrorum. 



Rather smaller than the preceding, of which however it may 

 prove to be an extreme variety. It is of a deep black ; the cheeks 

 are banded with a rich scarlet patch ; the elytra in one of two 

 specimens are of a delicate sulphur-yellow, in the other whitish 

 and only yellow at the base ; the base and margin of the elytra 

 are narrowly cinctured with bright scarlet, the apical portion is 

 also margined with scarlet — in one specimen, the yellow one, 

 more widely than in the other ; a wide band before the middle 

 red, but obscured with black ; the suture behind margined with 

 black ; apical half of elytra with four small black spots. 

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



6. Anisocerus monachinus, n. s. PL X. f. 3. B.M. 



A. niger ; thoracis lateribus albo-plagiatis tuberculo nigro ; scu- 

 tello albo ; elytris albis, basi nigro late-fasciato, fascia mediana 

 nigra, macula marginali subapicali triangulari nigra ; articulis 

 tertio et quarto antennarum apice incrassatis non piligeris. 



Of a dull black ; the thorax on each side with a large round 

 white mark, the tubercle in the middle black ; scutellum trun- 

 cated, white, the sides at the base black. Elytra white ; each at 

 the base with several scattered w r arts ; a broad black band at the 

 base, a narrower black band across the middle, a sharp-pointed 



