390 



LAMIIDiE. 



4. Probatius partitus, n. s. B.M. 



L. niger, hirsutulus ; capite, thorace antennarumque articulo 

 basali subochraceis, thorace vittis riuabus fusculis ; elytris 

 nigris cinereo irregulariter maculatis ; singulis postice medio 

 unicarinatis, apice mucronato impunctatis, punctis et margini- 

 bus setigeris. 



Black ; head ochraceous, with an impressed line down the 

 middle, extending from the mouth to the vertex ; antennas with 

 the basal joint brownish-ochreous ; other joints black, with a few 

 small bristles, third to the seventh with a narrow pale ring at 

 the base ; thorax suboehraceous, slightly mottled, on the middle 

 are two brown vittee constricted in the middle ; scutellum brown 

 on the sides, pale in the middle and at the tip. Elytra black, 

 the base narrowly bordered with ochraceous ; the surface irregu- 

 larly marked with small white spots; each elytron is sharply 

 mucronated at the tip, the mucro being the end of a keel parallel 

 to the suture which extends from behind the middle to the tip ; 

 there are eight or nine rows of punctures on each ; from each 

 puncture there arises a short bristly hair ; the legs are brownish- 

 black, with a cinereous pubescence ; the tibiae are somewhat 

 ringed in the middle with pale ochreous. 



Length 4f lines. 

 Hab. Brazil (Para). 



5. Probatius sulphurifer, n. s. 



P. brunneo-fuscus ; thorace supra, marginibus anticis et posticis 

 sulphureis, elytris singulis maculis duabus distinctis transversis 

 sulphureis, prima ante, secunda pone medium, elytris apice 

 mucronatis, sutura intus mucronem sulphureo signato. 

 Long. lin. 4£. 



Hab. South America (Edw. Shephard, Esq.). 



2/. AMNISCUS. 



Amniscus, Dej. Cat. p. 364. 



Leptostvlus, p., Leconte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. n. s. ii. 



168. 

 Lamia, p., Fabr., Say. 



1. Amniscus sex-guttatus. B.M. 



Lamia sex-guttata, Say, Journ. Acad, Nat. Sc. Philad. v. 269. 

 Amniscus vicinus, Dej. Cat. p. 364. Chevr. Coll. 

 Hab. N. America. 



