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brunneis ; elytris antice simplicibus, postice sordide albo strigatis 
et fasciculatis ; abdomine cinereo-fulvo lanuginoso ; pedibus ru- 
fescentibus, ciiiereo dense hirsutis. Long. 4 lin. 
Head dark-brown, coarsely pubescent, vertex with two short 
erect pencils of dark-brown hair. Antenose blackish brown, 
densely pubescent, and clothed besides with long, coarse, brown 
hairs. Thorax brown ; disk with two parallel lines of tawny- 
brown hairs. Elytra moderately punctured, dingy brown, pubes- 
cent, and clothed with long hairs ; base with one or two short tu- 
bercles on each side, but without tufts of long hairs ; apical part 
ashy and marked with Vv^hitish streaks and tufts of whitish hairs. 
Body beneath and especially the abdomen densely clothed with 
woolly tawny pile ; legs reddish and clothed with woolly pubes- 
cence. 
Forests of the Tapajos. 
4. Desmiphora elegantula, White. 
Desmiphora elegantula. White, Cat. Longic. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 401. 
H. cylindrica, ferrugineo-castanea, longe hirsuta, nitida ; thorace et 
elytris grossissime punctatis, illo disco cristis duabus parallelis et 
lateribus fulvis, his utrinque prope basin unipenicillatis, apice albo 
strigatis et penicillatis ; corpore subtus tenuiter cinereo pubes- 
cente. Long. 2f-3 lin. 
Forests of the Tapajos. 
5. Desmiphora multicristata, n. sp, 
D. elongato-oblonga, fulvo-testacea, undique longe hirsuta ; antennis 
gracilibus ; thorace convexo, crebre punctato, tripenicillato ; ely- 
tris grosse punctatis, utrinque prope basin cristis tribus densis 
elongatis parallelis, prope apicem penicillis tribus, testaceo-fulvis ; 
corpore subtus subnudo ; pectore abdomineque lateribus nigrican- 
tibus. Long. 4| lin. 
Head coarsely punctured, brown, clothed with pale-tawny pu- 
bescence, the forehead and vertex having numerous long and 
erect pale hairs. Antennae rather longer than the body, slender, 
the joints being much longer and thinner than in the other 
species; third joint rather strongly curved ; fourth less curved; all 
the joints pale testaceous tawny, shining, and clothed through- 
out with long pale hairs. Thorax convex, surface even, coarsely 
punctured, tawny-pubescent, and clothed with erect hairs; disk 
on each side and front margin each with a thin pencil of hairs. 
Elytra oblong, coarsely punctured, especially towards the base, 
tawny testaceous, shiiiing ; each elytron towards the base with 
three rather long parallel crests of dense hairs all of equal height, 
and towards the apex with three thin pencils of similar hairs ar- 
ranged in a row across the elytron. Body beneath and legs pale. 
