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rows, except about the suture near the base, where they are very 
closely punctured ; the scant hoary pile lies in lines along the 
interstices ; colour rusty brown. Body beneath rusty brown, 
thinly clothed with shining hoary pile. Legs moderately elon- 
gate, pale reddish ; thighs strongly clavate, clubbed part blackish. 
Santarem, on slender dry twigs. 
2. Eosocentrus nitidulus, n. sp. 
E. oblongus, coiivexus, fusco-ferrugineus, nitidulus pube sparsa 
brevissima cinerea vestitus ; antennis corpore dimidio longioribus, 
thorace utrinque spina recta armato, supra postice linea transversa 
impresso'; elytris punctatis, punctis apud discum sublineatim or- 
dinatis. Long. 2-2| lin. 
Head convex in front ; central line deeply impressed ; muzzle 
narrowed below the eyes ; the latter moderately large, distant on 
the vertex ; rusty brown, clothed with ashy pubescence. Antennse 
half as long again as the body, nearly naked, ferruginous. 
Thorax subquadrate, constricted behind the spines, the latter stout, 
very acute, and straight ; surface closely punctured, dark rusty, 
scantily clothed with ashy pubescence. Elytra oblong-ovate, con- 
vex, very thinly clothed with short, shining, cinereous hairs, 
thickly punctured, the punctures on the disk partly arranged in 
rows j colour rusty, in some examples with a brassy tinge. Body 
b'eneath dark rust}", scantily clothed with ashy hairs. Legs dark 
rusty, thighs abruptly clavate. 
Santarem, on slender dry twigs. 
Genus Blabicentrus, nov. gen. 
Body oblong-ovate, convex, clothed with longish stiff hairs. 
Head small ; muzzle narrowed below the eyes ; the latter large and 
nearly approximating on the vertex. Antennse filiform or seta- 
ceous, a little longer than the body, clothed with stiff hairs; basal 
joint narrowed towards the base. Thorax tumid on each side in 
the middle, but quite destitute of spine. Elytra oblong-ovate, 
convex, rounded or briefly and obliquely truncated at the apex. 
Legs moderately elongated ; thighs abruptly clavate ; tarsi rather 
narrow and shorter than the tibiae even in the hind legs ; claw- 
joint elongated, claws divergent. 
1. Blabicentrus hirsutulus, n. sp. 
B. oblongo-ovatus, convexus, undique setosus, brimneus, nitidulus ; 
elytris maculis elongatis griseis lineatim ordinatis, apice rotundatis. 
Long. 3 lin. 
Head dingy brown, clothed with coarse light-brown pubescence 
and with longish stiff hairs ; central line faintly impressed ; eyes 
