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Group Desmiphorince. 
Genus Desmiphora^ Serville. 
Serville, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr, iv. 62. 
Desmiphora is distinguished from the neighbouring genera by 
the numerous tufts of hair arising from the thorax and elytra, 
and the long hairy clothing of its body and limbs. The body is 
elongate-oblong or linear, with the apex of the elytra obtusely 
rounded. The head is small and retracted, with sloping crown, 
very short face and muzzle, and large eyes. The antennse 
are stout, about as long as the body, tapering to a point, 
with short thick basal joint narrowed at the base, elongated 
second and third joints, and progressively abbreviated remaining 
joints. The thorax has an acute prominent tubercle on each 
side in the middle. The legs are stout, thighs not clavate ; tarsi 
with short triangular joints, and fine divergent claws. 
TheDesmiphorm are found clinging to slender decaying branches 
of trees, and are numerous in species in Tropical America. 
Some of them resemble, in their colours and tufted forms, decayed 
fragments of wood covered with minute cryptogamic plants. 
1. Desmiphora fasciculata, Oiiv. 
Lamia fasciculata, Olivier, Ins. p. 67, t. 17. f. 131; Fab. Ent. Syst. i. 2. 284, 
268; Syst. El. ii. 2.99. 
D. oblongo-elongata, fusco-nigra, capite, thorace articulisque basalibus 
antennamm fulvo hirsutis et penicillatis, articulo tertio apice infra 
dilatato ; elytris utrinque pone medium fulvo plagiatis, basin et 
apicem versus nigro penicillatis, undique breviter setosis, et griseo 
hirsutis ; pedibus nigris, fulvo variegatis ; tibiis extus dense se- 
tosis ; corpore subtus nigro nitido ; abdomine utrinque fulvo 
plagiato. Long. 8-9 lin. d' 2 - 
Ega j Upper Amazons. 
2. Desmiphora cirrosa, Erichs. 
Desmiphora cirrosa, Erichs. Consp. Ins. Col. Periiaii. p. 147. 
D. oblongo-elongata, brunnea, capite fusco, vertice fusco bipenicil- 
lato ; antennis fulvo-brumieis, hirsutis ; thorace supra plaga magna, 
postica brunnea, parte antica et lateribus sordide albis albo peoi- 
cillatis ; elytris utrinque prope basin fusco penicillatis, postice et 
abdomine albo strigatis et penicillatis. Long. 6 lin. d $ • 
Generally distributed throughout the forests of the Amazons ; 
also found in South Brazil near Rio Janeiro. 
3. Desmiphora senicula, n. sp. 
D. cylindrica, brunnea, griseo hirsuta, vertice bipenicillato ; antennis 
obscuris ; thorace disco cristis duabus eiongatis parallelis fulvo- 
