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1. ACYPHODERES CRINITUS. B.M. 



A. aterrimus, tibiis posticis apice rufo-pilosis. 



Stenopterus crinitus, Klug, Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xii. p. 474. 



t. 44. f. 11. 

 Odontocera crinita, Serv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii. 549. 

 Odontocera cruentata, Dej. Cat. p. 360. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



2. ACYPHODERES FEMORATUS. B.M. 



A. niger, thorace argenteo-tomentoso, elytrorum disco femorum- 



que basi pallidis. 

 Stenopterus femoratus, Klug, Nov. Act. xii. 475. t. 44. f. 10. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



3. ACYPHODERES AURULENTCS. B.M. 



A. ferrugineus, pube flavo-aurulenta obductus, antennis serratis 



nigris^ elytrorum vitta suturali pallida, nitida. 

 Stenopterus aurulentus, Dalman, Anal. Ent. p. 71. 

 Necydalis aurulenta, Kirby, Linn. Trans, xii. 443. 

 Odontocera aurulenta, Serv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii. 548. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



4. ACYPHODERES SERICINUS, n. S. B.M. 



A. nigro-fuscus, antennis nigris ; thorace hirtulo, pilis sericeis 

 aureis et alteris fuscis variegatis, lineis tribus elevatis, media 

 recta, lateralibus curvatis, marginem anticam non attingen- 

 tibus; scutello pilis aureis ornato; elytris ferrugineo-fuscis, 

 valde attenuatis, marginibus anguste-nigris, humeris, basique 

 punctatis ; pedibus ferrugineis et nigris. 

 Long. lin. 8£. 



Head above the mouth raised and wrinkled, in front of the eye 

 a narrow band of golden-yellow hairs, a smooth raised ridge 

 between the antennae. Thorax rough, with brown hairs mixed 

 and varied with a golden pile; dorsal surface somewhat depressed, 

 with three raised smoothish lines, the central straight, the lateral 

 curved and not reaching to the fore margin ; metathorax varied 

 with a golden-yellow pubescence. Abdomen : beneath ferru- 

 ginous, base of each segment black. Femora with upper part 

 except at base and tip black, tarsi yellowish; posterior tibiae 

 black, pale at the tip, w r ith some slightly elongated ferruginous 

 hairs. 



A species closely allied to A. aurulentus. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



