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pying each side from the base to the middle, and an indistinct 
oblique whitish belt traversing the middle of each elytron. Un- 
derneath and legs brownish, varied with grey. The sterna are 
all plane. 
Occurred sparingly at Ega on slender dead branches. 
2. Leptostylus cretatellus^ n. sp. 
L. oblongus, subconvexus, tomento canescente vestitus : elytris linea 
lateral! nigra, macula magna apicali fusca : thoracis dorso indi- 
stincte tuberciilato. Long. 3^ lin. 
Head clothed with grey pile. Antennse grey, spotted with 
brown. Thorax uneven above ; tubercles indistinct, the lateral 
ones conical, obtuse, placed behind the middle ; the colour is 
hoary white, the fore part of the disk having two small dark 
brown spots. Elytra oblong, sharply and obliquely truncated at 
the apex ; surface punctured, and furnished with three faint 
raised lines, on which rise a few small elevations, surmounted 
each by a minute pencil of black hairs; the colour is hoary 
white, except at the apex, which has a large brown spot re- 
mounting in an angle on the suture ; the sides near the base 
have also a thick blackish line. Legs and underside greyish, 
varied with brown. 
One example taken at Obydos. 
3. Leptostylus ovalisj n. sp. 
L. curtus, ovatus, convexus, riigrinus : thoracis dorso trituberculato, 
tuberculis lateralibus obtusis. Long. 3 lin. 
Head olive-grey, with minute black spots. Antennse with the 
three basal joints dark grey, speckled with black; the remainder 
grey, with the tips blackish. Thorax with an elevation on the 
front part of the disk, surmounted by three obtuse tubercles; 
the lateral tubercles very obtuse : punctured, scantily clothed 
with dark grey pile irrorated with black. Elytra short, ovate, 
very briefly truncated at the tip, coarsely punctured, and fur- 
nished with rows of small tubercles, each surmounted by a short 
pencil of black hairs ; the colour is sooty black, with scanty dark 
grey pile, but towards the apex the grey pile forms a patch 
speckled with black. Beneath iron-grey, slightly shining. Legs 
grey, speckled with black. 
Found at Obydos and Para, on slender dead twigs. 
4. Leptostylus obscurellus, n. sp. 
L. elongato-ovatus, fuliginosus : thorace brevi, dorso insequali, tuber- 
culis lateralibus prominentibus. Long. 3 lin. 
Head clothed with sooty pile ; antennse of the same hue, with 
the bases of the joints (after the third) pallid. Thorax small 
