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mesothorax on the hinder margin with two patches of yellow hairs : 

 abdomen black, the two basal joints above yellow, the terminal 

 joint above covered with silky yellow hairs ; the posterior mar- 

 gins of the segments below rather widely bordered with golden 

 hairs. Legs blackish, covered with cinereous hairs ; femora of 

 hind legs at the base and tip yellow; the basal half of posterior 

 tibiae yellowish. In another specimen seemingly of the same 

 species, the third and fourth joints of the antennae are some- 

 what rufous at the base, while the cinnamon-brown marking of 

 the elytra is limited to the shoulder and to two short lines directed 

 backwards from it, the space between the fork being black. 



Length from 3\ to 4 lines. 

 Hab. Guatimala (Coll. Deby). 



4. Tomopterus Larroides, n. s. B.M. 



Very closely allied to the last species, with the thorax more 

 transverse, more gibbous on the sides, and with two patches of 

 yellow hairs placed transversely ; the scutellum is covered with 

 golden-yellow pile; the femora of the hind legs at the base are 

 pale ; the first joint of the antennas is black at base. 

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



There are specimens with the scutellum black, and a blackish- 

 brown vitta runs down the patch on the lateral half of each ely- 

 tron ; this is sometimes so wide as to render the patch almost 

 obsolete ; these specimens appear to be males. 



109. CHARIS. 

 Charis, Newman, Entom. p. 21. 



1. Charis Euphrosyne. B.M. 



" Nigra ; antennae piceae, basi testaceae : elytra testacea, mar- 

 ginibus suturali et marginali nigris; abdominis incisurae ar- 

 genteo-lanuginosae." — Newman. 



Charis Euphrosyne, Newman, Entom. p. 21. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



2. Charis Erato. 



" Caput nigrum, antennis piceis ; oculi nigri, magni, in faciem 

 conniventes : prothorax punctus, niger, vestigiis lateralibus 

 argenteis, lineaque obscura postica albida : scutellum argenteo- 

 lanuginosum ; elytra puncta, testacea, marginibus late nigris, 

 lineaque singuli obliqua prope suturam argentea; pedes ferru- 



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