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the body, castaneous, clothed with grey pubescence ; apices of the 
joints, from the fourth, black. Thorax broadened in the middle, 
and having on each side a distinct acute tubercle ; surface covered 
with scattered punctures, leaving a smooth space along the middle; 
clothed with ashy pubescence arranged in vittse, the central vitta 
(continuous to the scutellum) tawny. Elytra elongated, closely 
covered with short bristles (like the rest of the body) ; apex 
squarely truncated, with the external angles produced into an 
acute tooth ; surface punctate-striate, the stride more deeply im- 
pressed posteriorly and the interstices costate, dark blackish 
castaneous, covered with small confluent spots of grey tomentum. 
Body beneath blackish, thinly clothed with grey pile. Legs 
reddish ; tibi^ simple. 
Santarem, dead branches of trees. 
4. Esthlogena linearis, n. sp. 
E. linearis, dense longe hirsute, fusco castanea ; thorace foveolato, 
iinea dorsali Isevi, lateribus breviter spinosis ; elytris lineatim 
punctatis, cinereo irroratis, apice siiuiato-tmocatis, angulis vix 
productis ; antennis pedibusque testaceo-rufis, iilis articulis apice 
obscurioribus. Long. lin. 
Head coarsely punctured, clothed with tawny-brown pubes- 
cence. Antenna3 as long as the body, reddish testaceous; apices 
of the joints, from the fourth, darker. Thorax sparsely covered 
with large and deep punctures, leaving a smooth dorsal line; 
sides each with a small acute spine ; colour blackish chestnut. 
Elytra linear, narrowed close to the apex, the latter sinuate- 
truncate, with the angles acute, but not distinctly produced ; 
surface clothed with long, stifi* hairs very dense towards the 
apex, punctured in rows, dull castaneous, sprinkled with greyish 
confluent spots. Body beneath dull reddish browm ; legs testa- 
ceous red ; tibise simple. 
Santarem. There are two undescribed species, closely allied 
to this, found in the province of liio Janeiro*. 
* Esthlogena ohtusa, Elongata, parallelogram mica, setosa, nigro-castanea, 
griseo irrorata. Caput grossc punct'atum. AntemiEe dense setosse, 
rufo-testaceee, articulis a tertio basi pallidioribus. Thorax grosse 
punctatus, niger, linea dorsali Iffivi et interstitiis griseo puhescentibus; 
tuberculo lateraii apice uiiguiculato. Elytra liuearia, apice obtuse 
tmncata, lineatim punctata, interstitia l^via, nigro-castanea, griseo 
confiuenter maculata. Corpus subtus nigrum, nitidum, sparse tomen- 
tosum. Pedes rufi. Long. 5 lin. Hab. in Rio Janeiro (D. Squires). 
Esthlogena prolixa. Elongatissiraa, linearis, sparsim setosa, nigra, fusco- 
griseo tomentosa. Caput sparsim punctatum. Antennae nigrae. 
Thorax supra subplanus, punctis magnis paucis notatum, tuberculis 
lateralibus brevibus, latis, obtusis. Elytra apice recte truncata, an- 
gulis externis spinosis ; suj)ra sparsim punctata, postice costata. Cor- 
pus subtus et pedes nigra. Long. 6 Im. Hab, in Rio Janeiro. 
