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stricto ; elytris apice sinuato-truncatis anffulis hand productis. 
Long. 4| lin. S $ . 
Head brown, vertex with one, forehead with two ashy stripes. 
Antennae clothed with stiff setae, pitchy black, base of the fifth 
joint with a white ring ; in the male the base of the fourth joint 
is also ashy. Thorax short and rather rounded on the sides, 
slightly tumid not far from the base, and then gradually narrowed 
to the base : surface black, centre with two short lines in front 
and a longer line behind (pointing between the two short ones) 
ashy ; the sides have each two ashy lines, besides the ashy stripe 
lying over the fore coxse. Elytra moderately prominent at the 
shoulders, apex somewhat narrow and truncated in a slightly in- 
curved line, with the angles not at all prominent ; surface punc- 
tured and clothed with fine setae, black, varied with a large 
number of ashy spots of an oblong or short linear form ; apex 
white. Body beneath greyish. Legs pitchy, clothed with grey 
pile ; femora with a grey central ring ; tarsi grey, two terminal 
joints black : fore tarsi of the male strongly dilated and ciliated. 
c? . Terminal ventral segment broadly truncated, angles pro- 
duced into long spines ; dorsal notched. 
2 . Terminal ventral segment narrowed towards the tip, angles 
produced into spines ; dorsal also narrowed, notched at the apex. 
Ega, on branches of dead trees. There is a handsome species 
in collections from Mexico, which much resembles C. obtusa in 
the form of the thorax *. 
10. Colobothea humerosa, n. sp. 
C. elongata, variegata, thorace tuberculis acutis lateralibus retrorsum 
spectantihus mox ante basin sitis; elytris humeris antice dilatatis, 
griseis, carneo maculatis, utrinque fasciis macularibus tribus nigris ; 
pedibus carneo nigro griseoque variis. Long. 4^-6 lin. d* $ . 
Head blackish, forehead with three indistinct yellowish lines, 
vertex with two similar lines diverging on the occiput, cheeks 
striped with ashy ochreous. Antennse pitchy, bases of the fourth 
* Colobothea leucophcea (Chevrol. MS. sec. Bom. Deyrolle). Latiuscula, 
depressa, nigra, cinereo variegata. Caput nigrum, fronte cinereo obscure 
lineata, vertice vittis duabus cinereis postice divergentibus. Antennae 
piceae, articulis basi cinereis. Thorax brevis, lateribus rotundatis, ante 
basin tumidis, deinde constrictis ; dorso nigro, medio vitta lata (lineola 
nigra includente) lateribusque maculis tribus cinereis. Scutellum tri- 
angulare, nigrum, cinereo marginatum. Elytra latiuscula, depressa, 
postice modice attenuata, truncata, angulis exterioribus spinosis nigra, 
maculis cinereis confluentibus conspersa, relictis fasciis interrupts 
angulatis duabus nigris, una ante, altera pone medium. Corpus subtus 
dense cinereo tomentosum. Pedes cinerei, tibiis piceis cinereo annu- 
latis,tarsis cinereis apice nigris. Foeminae segmentum ultimum abdomi- 
nale attenuatum ; lamina ventrali longe bispinosa. Long.' 6^ lin. $ . 
Hab. in Mexico. 
