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dull ashy-brown hue, and much narrower and smaller. The 
forehead is uneven, punctured, and of a dull slaty hue; the 
third antennal joint in the male is much less swollen than in 
E. rubefuctus, and therefore more elongate, and fusiform rather 
than ovate in shape. The thorax is uneven and obtusely tuber- 
culated on the sides, but is destitute of longitudinal lines, except 
two very short ones near the base. The elytra are of the same 
grey leaden hue over their basal halves, and have a pale belt 
beyond the middle ; but the latter does not expand on the mar- 
gin. The dark apical streaked spot has an ashy transverse 
streak across the middle. 
Also found at Ega. 
3. Eudesmus posticalisj Guerin. 
Eudesmus posticalis, Guerin-Meneville, Icon. Regne Animal, p. 248. 
E. cylindricus, subdepressus, hrunneus ; thorace dorso valde in- 
aequali immaculate, tuberculis lateralibus parvis ; elytris medio 
fascia obliqua grisea, deinde brunneis griseo et griseo-brunneo 
strigatis, ante apicem signatura nigra griseo marginata ; antennis 
brunneis, articulis (duobus basalibus exceptis) basi testaceis; 
maris articulo tertio valde inflate, ovato. Long. 6| lin. <S . 
‘^D^un gris-brunatre couvert d^un duvet tres-court et tres-fin 
d'une couieur cendree, surtout en dessous, sur les cotes du 
corselet et au milieu des elytres, ou ce cendre blanchatre forme 
une bande crochue en arriere, terminee en pointe pres de la 
suture et precedant une tache arrondie d^un bruii plus fonce, 
en arriere de laquelle on voit une petite tache allongee blanche 
et deux ou trois petites lignes noiratres. Antennes d’un gris 
brun, avec la base du troisieme article et des suivants d'un jaune 
roussatre pale, une petite pointe avancee a la saillie du front sur 
laquelle shnserent les antennes. Pattes courtes et fortes, d^un 
gris brun dessus, cendrees en dessous. Long. 14, lat. 5 mill. — 
Bresil interieur.” (Guerin-Meneville, 1. c.) 
My example was found at Ega. 
4. Eudesmus sexvittatus^ n. sp. 
E. elongatus, depressus, fulvo-brunneus ; thorace supra vittis sex 
nigris ; elytris ultra medium dilatatis, plaga laterali infra humeros, 
linea basali strigisque ante apicem fuscis, vitta curvata laterali 
cinerea ; fronte abbreviata, oculis magnis subconvexis. Long, 
flilin. $. 
Head slightly convex on the forehead, with short muzzle ; 
eyes very large, broad, and somewhat convex, reaching very 
nearly to the edge of the epistome ; vertex bright tawny, and 
marked with a semicircular figure of a blackish-brown hue. 
Antennae rather longer than the body ( $ ) and stout, ochreous 
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