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the base ; a third extending as a broad fascia behind the middle 
to the suture ; and a fourth, small and transverse, near the apex : 
the lateral spots are sometimes united on the extreme margin. 
Body beneath and legs clothed with grey pile; club of hind 
femora slender. 
Ega ; on dry twigs in the forest. 
6. Lepturges inscriptuSj n. sp. 
L. oblongus, subdepressus, griseus, fusco Isete variegatus : thoracis 
spinis lateralibus prope angulos* posticos sitis : elytris oblongo- 
ovatis, apice sinuato-truncatis, griseis, plagis maculisque fuscis 
notatis. Long. lin. $ . 
Head reddish brown. Antennse reddish, extreme tips of the 
joints (from the third) black. Thorax regularly widened poste- 
riorly ; the spines situated near the hind angles, very acute and 
directed obliquely outwards ; the surface finely punctured, grey- 
ish, with the sides and two dorsal vittse brownish. Elytra 
oblong-ovate, briefly sinuate-truncate, with the angles obtuse; 
the surface finely punctured, slightly convex, grey, with various 
patches of a reddish-brown hue, — the patches consisting of a 
spot in the middle of the base, an elongate hooked spot on the 
side at the base, a lateral twin spot behind the middle, a V-like 
spot in the middle near the suture, and an oblique zigzag fascia 
between these latter and the apex. Body beneath and legs 
reddish brown. Legs rather slender ; all the thighs slenderly 
clavate. 
S. Paulo, Upper Amazons. 
7. Lepturges candicans, n. sp. 
L. oblongus, subdepressus, canescens : elytris pone medium fasciis 
duabus fuscis ad suturam convergentibus ornatis. Long. 3| lin. $ . 
Head clothed with hoary pile. Antennse reddish, clothed 
with hoary pile. Thorax not much widened posteriorly, the 
spines placed near the posterior angles, the disk with a few 
scattered punctures, and clothed uniformly with hoary pile. 
Elytra oblong, the sides rounded and rather enlarged behind the 
middle, the tip sinuate-truncate, both angles slightly produced 
and acute ; the surface punctured, hoary, with two irregular 
brown fasciae behind the middle converging on the suture ; the 
anterior fascia is broken towards the sides, and a narrow line 
conneets the two in the middle ; besides these fascise, there is a 
V-shaped brown mark in the middle of the base on each elytron 
and a streak on each side from the base to the middle. Body 
beneath and legs reddish, clothed with hoary pile. Thighs slen- 
derly clavate. 
Ega. 
