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are nearly parallelogrammic, especially in the male sex; in 
the females slightly dilated a little before the apex. The head 
is somewhat narrow, and the bases of the antennse rise from 
distinct antenniferous tubercles. The antennse are greatly 
elongated, and, from the third joint, very slender — the basal 
joint being longer than the third, and thickened from the base 
to near the apex. The prothorax is rather short, much nar- 
rower at the base than the elytra, and its widest part is at some 
distance from the base, where it forms, on each side, an obtuse 
prominence. The humeral angles of the elytra are prominent, 
and a distinct, but not polished, ridge proceeds from them to- 
wards the apex ; the surface of the elytra is ribbed, and the apex 
is truncate, with the outer angle alone prominent and dentiform. 
The sternums are narrow and plane. The abdomen is slender 
and tapering, and the terminal segment elongated, especially in 
the female. In C. cinctipennis the ventral plate of the female is 
subtubular and truncated at the apex, the dorsal obtusely 
rounded : in the male the dorsal plate is notched at the apex ; 
in C. cincticornis the apical segment is shorter and obtuse at the 
apex. The legs are slender, the basal joint of the tarsi much 
elongated : the fore tarsi are simple in both sexes. 
1. Carterica cinctipennis ^ Pascoe. 
Carterica cinctipetmis, Pasc. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. iv. 1858, p. 250. 
C. colohotheoides, Thomson, Classif. des Cerambycides, p. 19 (1860), sec. 
Clievrolat, Journ. Ent. i. 188. 
C. ochraceo-fulva, vertice vittis duabus, thorace vitta lata mediaiia 
alteraque angustiorie lateral usque ad oculos extensa, pectoris 
lateribus, femoribus tarsisque apice, tibiis et antennis nigris, his 
articulis intermediis basi piceis ; elytris nigris, utrinque tricostatis 
macula humerali margineque fulvis, pone medium fascia testacea 
ad suturam interrupta. Long. 4|-6 lin. S $ • 
Mr. Pascoe described this as a new species, believing it, after 
careful examination, to be distinct from the S, mucronata of 
Olivier, a species closely resembling it ; but Prof. Gerstaecker, in 
the Berlin ^Bericht ^ for 1858 (p. 117), believes the two to be 
the same, the description of Olivier being much more indica- 
tive than his figure.'’^ It is a generally distributed insect 
throughout the Amazons region. I did not find it on timber, 
but on the leaves of trees in the forest. 
2. Carterica cincticornis, n. sp. 
C. minor, modice elongata, depressa, setosa, nigra ; capite (occipite 
excepto), vitta lata lateraii thoracis, macula parva humerali femo- 
rumque basi fulvo-testaceis ; antennarum articulo quarto late tes- 
taceo annulate, prime infra ciliato ; elytris pone medium paulo 
