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what more elongated than in the preceding species ; apex trun- 
cate, outer angles spinose ; surface black, shining, and sprinkled 
with rounded tawny-ashy scattered spots, which sometimes leave 
a clear space behind the middle and near the apex ; apex mar- 
gined with whitish. Body beneath greyish ; each side with a 
broad stripe of dense tawny tomentum extending from the front 
margin of the prothorax to the tip of the abdomen, interrupted 
on each segment of the latter by a black spot. Legs ashy, 
spotted with black. 
^ . Terminal ventral segment elongated, flattened, tapering, 
very much longer than the dorsal, and deeply notched at the 
apex. Anterior tarsi not dilated, but fringed with long fine 
hairs. 
$ . Terminal ventral segment tapering, apex sinuate-trun- 
cate, angles spinose; dorsal segment obtuse at apex, slightly 
notched in the middle. 
On branches of dead trees, Ega. An abundant species. 
18. Colohothea juncetty n. sp. 
C. gracilior, angustata, fusca ; thorace cinereo-fulvo, vittis septem 
fuscis ; elytris pone humeros sensim, apices versus citius attenuatis, 
maculis parvis cinereo-fulvis plerumque confluentibus. Long. 
4|lin. $. 
Head blackish, streaked with ashy-tawny, vertex with two 
diverging tawny lines. Thorax ashy-tawny, with seven blackish 
vittse. Elytra slender, tapering gradually from the shoulders to 
near the apical spines, thence more quickly narrowed; apex 
truncate, outer angles spinose; surface sprinkled with ashy- 
tawny specks, agglomerated here and there into irregular larger 
spots, and leaving a clear space near the apex; apex broadly 
edged with white. Body beneath reddish, clothed with ashy 
tomentum, which is denser on the sides of the breast, and more 
scanty along the middle of the abdomen. Legs reddish, spotted 
with grey and black. 
$ . Terminal abdominal segment tapering and narrow; ven- 
tral plate sinuate-truncate, angles not prominent ; dorsal plate 
with a shallow angular emargination. 
Para. 
19. Colohothea securifera, n. sp. 
C. modice elongata, postice attenuata, fusca; thorace vittis sex 
cinereo-fulvis ; elytris maculis parvis cinereo-fulvis conspersis, sin- 
gulis spatio magno discoidali fusco maculam majorem cinereo- 
fulvam includente ; maris segmento terminali ventrali angulis in 
lobos securiformes productis. Long. 4|- lin. c? $ . (7 exempl.) 
Head reddish brown, streaked with tawny, and with two 
divergent tawny lines on the crown. Antennae reddish, bases 
