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Mr. Charles J. Gahan on the 
Epectasis, Bates. 
167. Epectasissimilis,sip. Ji. 
Head, puothorax, abdomen, legs, and the first three joints of the 
antenna} closely covered with a brownish-tawny pubescence. Pro- 
thorax with a dark brown band along the upper part of each side ; 
the thoracic puncture visible on this band, but elsewhere concealed 
by the thick pubescence. Elytra elongate, scarcely narrowed 
towards the apex, where each is broadly and somewhat obliquely 
truncate ; rather thickly, distinctly, and somewhat seriately punc- 
tured, with a faint pubescence partly tawny-brown, partly greyish 
in colour, each tipped with a denser patch of greyish pubescence 
on the apical border ; dorsal costa distinct, slightly oblique, 
separating a broad sutural channel from a narrower channel placed 
on the obliquely declivous lateral part of the disk. Antenna) with 
the scape cicatrized at the apex, the cicatrice pale pubescent ; with 
the joints from the fourth to the ninth or tenth dusky-brown, with 
their bases pale testaceous ; with the eleventh, and sometimes also 
the tenth, pale testaceous. Long. 9 — 13, lat. 2 — 3 mm. 
Hab. Grenada (H. H. Smith). 
This species is not quite so narrow as E. attenuatus, 
Bates^ and is not so thickly nor so strongly punctured 
on the elytra. 
Tethystola^ Thomson. 
168. Tethystola mutica, sp. n. (PI. II., fig. 6.) 
Head and prothorax thickly punctured, sooty -brown, sparsely 
furnished with short erect setae. Prothorax cylindrical, a little 
longer than broad, with two very faint swellings on each side, one 
just behind the middle, the other close to the anterior margin ; 
with a feeble transverse impression a little before the base ; with a 
feebly-raised and obtuse carina, marked by a whitish line along the 
middle of the disk, with this carina depressed anteriorly where, on 
each side of it, stands a small obtuse tubercle. Elytra with the 
shoulders slightly tuberculiform, the sides subparallel for three- 
fourths of their length, and then slightly and gradually contracted 
towards the broadly truncate and slightly sinuous apex. The 
elytra, thickly and distinctly punctured, and sparsely setose, are 
blackish at the base, where each bears in the middle a small oblong 
tubercle ; behind this they have a faint buff-brown covering, dotted 
irregularly with small dark brown points, and each is crossed 
obliquely near the middle by a linear and slightly sinuous white 
band which almost meets its fellow, to form an acute angle directed 
forwards at the suture, and by a second white band similar to, and 
almost parallel with, the first, and placed rather more than half- 
