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small tawny spots, sometimes arranged in rows over the basal 
half, but agglomerated more or less beyond the middle, leaving 
clear spaces ; in other examples more irregular, apex edged with 
whitish. Body beneath somewhat uniformly clothed with tawny- 
ashy tomentum (except, as usual, the terminal segment). Legs 
reddish, spotted with ashy. 
$ . Terminal abdominal segment tapering j dorsal plate 
rounded at tip ; ventral broadly truncate, with angles produced 
into short and broad spines, and middle of the truneation 
slightly advanced or festooned. The fore tarsi in the are 
simple. 
Branches of dead trees, Ega ; abundant. 
16. Colohothea propinqua, n, sp. 
C. modice elongata et attenuata, fusca ; thorace cinereo-fulvo, vittis 
septem fusco-nigris, una mediana et tribus utrinque lateralibus 
quamm duabus postice conjunctis tertiaque inferiore tenuissima ; 
elytris maculis parvis cinereo-fulvis in seriebus intermptis ordi- 
natis. Long. 5 lin. $ . 
Head blackish, streaked with greyish; vertex with two di- 
vergent grey lines ; antennse black, reddish towards the base, 
fourth, sixth, eighth, and tenth joints ringed with white. Tho- 
rax ashy, with seven black vittse — namely, one in the middle, 
broader, two on each side converging and blending before reach- 
ing the base, and one below them very slender. Elytra truncate 
at apex, with exterior angles spiniform ; surface dark brown, 
covered with distinct ashy-tawny spots, arranged partly in rows, 
but interrupted by oblique clear spaces near the base, at the 
middle, and near the apex ; apex with an ashy spot on each ely- 
tron, much enlarged towards the suture. Body beneath clothed 
with tawny-ashy tomentum ; abdomen spotted with black. Legs 
reddish, spotted with black and ashy. 
$ . Terminal ventral segment strongly tapering; ventral plate 
truncate, angles produced into lengthy spines; dorsal plate 
rounded at apex. 
S. Paulo, Upper Amazons. It is very closely allied to C. va- 
rica, but differs in the thoracic markings from all the numerous 
specimens which I have examined of that species. 
17. Colohothea ncevia, n. sp. 
C, elongata, nigra ; thorace vittis quatuor tenuibus, elytris maculis 
parvis, rotundatis, dispersis, cinereis ; corpore subtus vitta lateral! 
fulvo-cinerea tomentosa infra nigro marginata. Long.4j-61in. S $ . 
Head black, streaked with tawny, vertex with two diverging 
lines of the same colour. Thorax black, with four tawny-ashy 
lines, the two dorsal ones not at all divergent. Elytra some- 
