406 LAMHD.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. £f 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 autennarum 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 warts ; a broad black band at the 

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



