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truncatis, angulis exterioribus modice productis. Long. 4|-5| 
lin. S $ . 
Head ashy brown. Antennae rusty red, spotless. Thorax 
widened from the front to the tips of the spines, which are coni- 
cal and placed a short distance from the hind angles ; surface 
dark brown, with seven more or less incomplete light-brown or 
ashy vittae. Scutellum ashy. Elytra tapering from base to apex 
( c? ), or more oblong-ovate ( $ ), apex obliquely sinuate-truncate, 
outer angles produced ; surface shining dark brown, with two 
broad fasciae (interrupted at the suture) composed of a number 
of short ashy longitudinal lines ; a few specks near the base and 
apex and a short line along the outer point of the apex also of an 
ashy colour. Body beneath and legs clothed with ashy-brown pile. 
6 Apical dorsal plate scarcely emarginated, ventral notched. 
$ Ovipositor very short and broad ; dorsal plate broad and 
obtuse at the tip. 
Ega; rare. 
23. Nyssodrys promeceSj n. sp. 
N. angustata, parum convexa, nigro-brunnea ; thorace elytrisque 
vittis tribus fulvis, his oblique truncatis, angulis suturalibus ob- 
tusis. Long. 3| lin. S • 
Head ashy brown. Antennse four times the length of the 
body, scantily furnished with short setae, black. Thorax scarcely 
widened to the tips of the spines, which are conical and placed 
nearer the middle than the hind angles ; surface blackish brown, 
with three tawny vittse. Elytra elongate, narrow, obliquely and 
obtusely truncated at the apex ; surface punctured, except near 
the apex, blackish brown ; each elytron with three tawny vittse 
terminating before reaching the apex, the sutural and central 
ones having a shorter faint grey streak between them; the 
apical part has two angular fulvous spots. Body beneath and 
legs clothed with silky grey pile ; sides of sternum and abdomen 
with a fulvous line. 
S Apical dorsal plate truncated, ventral broadly notched. 
This curious species approximates in length of antennse, shape, 
and colours to the Hippopsine group of Lamiaires; but all 
its essential features show that it is a true Acanthocinite of the 
Leiopodine section, the basal joint of the antennse having a 
waved outline beneath, the thorax and head having the shape 
usual in the Leiopodinse, and the sternums the same outline. 
Its habits are those of a Hippopsis, clinging, like the species of 
this and the neighbouring genera, to slender dead twigs ; con- 
sequently the claw -joints of the tarsi (especially of the middle 
legs) are longer than is usual in the Acanthocinitse, and have 
some analogy to those of the subtribe Oncideritse to which the 
