192 CER/VMBYCID.E. 



antennae black, the sixth, seventh and eighth joints at the base 

 somewhat pale. Thorax rather longer than wide, with roundish 

 stamped punctures and some smooth spaces among them, a 

 smooth space down the middle ; thorax somewhat contracted 

 behind, and with two patches of pubescence in front. Scutellum 

 obscure, covered with short hairs, and with two punctures at the 

 end. Elytra reaching slightly beyond the middle, gradually at- 

 tenuated, apex truncated and slightly emarginated ; surface de- 

 pressed, vitreous pale yellowish, base slightly scabrous ; suture, 

 margin and apex black, the black of the margin widened at the 

 end and punctured; metathorax varied with silky grey hairs. 

 Abdomen with basal segment and part of the next white ; apex 

 pale. Legs black, base of all the femora white ; inside of femora 

 of fore legs excavated, inside of tibiae of first two pairs of legs 

 pale; hind legs with base of tibiae white, the apical portion 

 covered with longish black hairs ; tarsi black. 

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



15. Odontocera chrysozone, n. s. PI. V. f. 5. B.M. 



O. lutea, antennis ferrugineis, thoracis marginibus sub-antica et 

 postica pilis aureis ornatis, fasciisque duobus transversis dor- 

 salibus nigris lateribus fere connexis ; elytris vitreis prope 

 basin vitta oblique-transversa nigra, sutura, mucronata, margine 

 mucronata. Long. lin. 5f. 



Necydalis fasciata, Oliv. pi. i. f. 9 ? 



Head yellow ; eyes very large, black, face and narrow space 

 between the eyes clothed with silky golden hairs ; antennae fer- 

 ruginous, the 6-10 joints triangularly dilated on the inside, 2-5 

 joints with blackish hairs on the outside. Thorax with two 

 transverse bands clothed with silky golden hairs ; one of these 

 bands is close to front margin, the other is on the hind margin, 

 and they are both connected on the side of the thorax, the back 

 of the thorax deeply punctured, darkish yellow, with two trans- 

 verse bands, the first the longest and nearly meeting at the side. 

 Scutellum clothed with silky golden hairs. Elytra gradually 

 attenuated, fiat, vitreous, strongly margined, margins of suture 

 and side produced at the end, which reaches considerably beyond 

 the middle of abdomen ; triangular patch at base of elytra taken 

 together punctured, the point meeting at the suture a little be- 

 hind the scutellum, the sides of the triangle forming a black 

 oblique band across each elytron, the glassy surface of elytra 

 yellowish. Legs and under side pale yellow ; metathorax closely 

 covered with silky golden pile ; legs with several blackish hairs, 

 mixed with vellow hairs. 

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



