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tapering, shoulders less oblique, densely clothed with confluent 
ashy-tawny spots, leaving a rounded discoidal spot on each behind 
the middle, and a quadrate one close to the apex, dark brown ; 
apex sinuate-truncate, sutural angle slightly prominent, external 
dentiform. Body beneath ashy, varied with tawny patches ; abdo- 
men spotted with dusky. Legs tawny-ashy, spotted with black. 
. Anterior tarsi dilated and fringed. Terminal abdominal 
segment not reaching the tip of the elytra, narrowed towards 
the apex ; dorsal plate obtuse, ventral truncate-emarginate. 
$ . Terminal abdominal segment tubular, prolonged con- 
siderably beyond the apex of the elytra ; dorsal plate lanceolate, 
ventral truncated, angles not produced. 
Ega. 
24. Colohothea grallatrixy n. sp. 
C. elongata, postice valde regulariter attenuata, nigra ; thorace vittis, 
sex cinereo-fulvis, lineolaque mediana cinerea ; elytris cinereo ful- 
voque dense confluenter irroratis, maculis tribus utrinque discoi- 
dalibus plagaque magna apicali nigris ; maris pedibus longissimis 
validis. Long, d $ 4| lin. 
Head blackish, streaked with tawny, vertex with two tawny- 
ashy slightly divergent lines. Antennae robust, black, bases of 
alternate joints ringed with whitish. Thorax black, and having 
on each side three tawny-ashy vittse, and a thin grey line down 
the middle of the black central streak. Elytra with shoulders 
moderately prominent laterally and vertically, thence regularly 
tapering to the apex, which is truncated, with the sutural angle 
moderately produced, and the apical angle spiniform ; the sur- 
face is thickly covered with confluent spots, partly grey and 
partly fulvous, which leave, on the disk of each, three spots (one 
before the middle, and two, placed obliquely, after the middle) 
and a large square black apical spot of a fine black colour ; apex 
margined with ashy. Body beneath grey; sides, from the front 
of the prothorax to the penultimate ventral segment, occu- 
pied by a broad ochreous-tawny stripe ; sides of abdomen spotted 
with black. Legs ashy, spotted with black. 
. Legs greatly elongated, and stouter than in the female ; 
anterior tarsi broadly dilated and hirsute. Terminal abdominal 
segment short; apex both of the dorsal and ventral plates 
emarginated. 
$ . Terminal abdominal segment narrow and moderately 
elongated, obtuse, angles not produced. 
Ega and S. Paulo ; rare. 
25. Colohothea olivenciay n. sp. 
C. elongata, postice regulariter attenuata, nigra ; thorace vittis qua- 
