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scutello rotundato ; elytris breviusculis, protliorace basi paulo latio- 

 ribus, lateribus raodice rotundatis, sulcato-punctatis, punctis approxi- 

 matis, squamis repletis, interstitiis valde convexis, apice late rotunda- 

 tis ; pectore paulo excavato, griseo piloso ; femoribus apice, tibiisque 

 etiam apice, tarsisque nigris, his articulo secundo minore. Long. 

 7. lin. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



ASTYAGE. 



(Choline.) 



Cholo affinis, sed scapo antennarum oculo impiDgente ; protlio- 

 race conico, angulo postico acuto ; et tibiis anticis baud ungui- 

 culatis. 



The only exponent of tbis genus is an insect resembling in its 

 coloration Dionychus parallelogrammus, Germ., but remarkable 

 for the peculiar form of the prothorax. 



Astyage lineigera. (PL XI. fig. 8.) A. oblongo-ovata, parum 

 convexa, fusco-castanea, flavido-squamosa; rostro parum arcuato, 

 nigro, nitidissimo, basi fronteque capitis squamis elongatis sejunctim 

 vestitis ; antennis piceis, clava brunnea, funiculi articulo primo duobus 

 sequentibus conjunctim parum breviore ; oculis rotundatis ; protliorace 

 conico, basi parum bisinuato, quam longitudine vix latiore, supra macu- 

 latim squamoso ; scutello breviter ovato ; elytris pone humeros latiori- 

 bus, depressis, apicem versus gradatim angustioribus, apice ipso paulo 

 emarginatis, singulis sulcis decern, squamis dense repletis, instructis, 

 interstitiis nitentibus ; corpore infra dense subsulphureo-squamoso ; 

 femoribus validis, infra dente parvo instructis ; tarsis articulo primo 

 secundo majore. Long. 8 lin. 



Hab. Brazil. 



OzOPHERUS. 

 (Cholina3.) 



Cholo affinis, sed oculis elongatis, transversis, infra acuminatis ; 

 protliorace lobis ocularibus distinctis ; coxis anticis approxi- 

 matis ; tibiis apice biunguiculatis, intermediis et posticis mar- 

 gine posteriore apice oblique emarginatis et ciliatis. 



The eyes are partly concealed in repose by the ocular lobes, 

 which, however, although distinct, are not very prominent. The 

 sole exponent of this genus is a remarkable insect on account of 

 the spiniform tubercles (somewhat variable in size and number) 

 with which the elytra are furnished, and the dense fringe of hairs 

 clothing the inner edge of the anterior and posterior tibiae. 



LTNN. JOURS'. — ZOOLOGY, YOL. XI. 84 



