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and placed a little behind the middle. The elytra are somewhat 
uneven^ with faint carinse and centro-basal ridges; they are 
sparsely setose in some species, naked in others. The terminal 
ventral and dorsal plates in the c5' are more or less emarginated; 
and the ovipositor of the ? with its sheath is elongated, the ven- 
tral plate being truncated, and the dorsal pointed. 
1. (Edopeza pogonocheroideSj Serv. 
Leiopus {(Edopeza) Pogonocheroides, Serv. 1. c. p. 88. 
This species is suffieiently well known through the description 
of Serville. It is of a brown colour, tawny in some parts, and 
marked behind the middle of the elytra with a black angulated 
streak or spot, followed by an ashy elnb-shaped streak near the 
suture, which reaches to the apex; the faint dorsal carinse are 
speckled with grey and black, and the antennae and feet are 
spotted with brown and grey. The males are known by the 
enlarged basal joint of the fore tarsi. It varies much in the 
markings of the elytra, the subapical black spot and the apical 
ashy streak being both subjeet to become either enlarged in size 
or diminished so as to be scarcely visible. 
The species has a wide range, and the varieties do not appear 
to be restricted to localities, specimens before me from Panama 
not differing from others taken on the banks of the Tapajos and 
the Upper Amazons. It is a common insect on felled trees in 
new clearings throughout the Amazons region. 
2. (Edopeza leucostigma, n. sp. 
CE. ohlongo-elongata, fulvo-hrunnea, nigro alboque variegata : elytris 
oblique sinuato-truncatis, ante medium macula suturali alha. 
Long. 7 lin. $ . 
Head tawny, vertex with two blaek spots close to the inner 
margin of the eyes. Antennse reddish brown, second to fifth 
joints each with two whitish rings, the remaining joints (except 
the second) each with one pale ring. Thorax uneven, tawny 
varied with dusky, and marked with four short and crooked 
blaek vittae. Elytra elongate-oblong, very long compared with 
the thorax, apex of eaeh briefly sinuate-truncate ; surface punc- 
tured, some of the punctures in rows, and these latter each covered 
by a black spot, and emitting a short bristle ; the colour is tawny 
brown ; beyond the middle is an undulated blackish fascia, 
and before the middle, on the suture, is a round white spot ; 
besides which there are a few white specks on the sites of the 
faint dorsal carinse, and an irregular thin white fascia near the 
apex. Body beneath clothed with fine silky iron-grey pile, the 
sides of the abdomen spotted with tawny ashy. Legs reddish ; 
thighs prettily variegated with grey ; tibise and tarsi ringed with 
grey. Ovipositor of the female short. 
