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white. Body beneath and legs dingy brown ; abdomen with a 
black spot on each side of the second to the fourth segments. 
Santarein^ Lower Amazons. Also found at Rio Janeiro. 
2. Agennopsis sordida, n. sp. 
A. eloiigato-elliptica, brunnea ; thorace grosse vage punctatOj lateri- 
bus cinereo-brunneis ; elytris lineatim punctatis, interstitiis sub- 
costatis, ante apicem utrinque lineola transversa cinerea. Long. 
4 lin. $ . 
Head marked throughout with very large punctures. Antennae 
about half the length of the body, dingy brown. Thorax slightly 
narrovv’ed anteriorly and scarcely rounded in the middle; surface 
thickly marked with large punctures, leaving no smooth dorsal 
line ; brown, sides each with a broad ashy-brown vitta. Elytra 
considerably broader than the thorax, scarcely widened beyond 
the middle, then narrowed to the apex ; surface punctured in rows 
from base to apex, with some of the interstices elevated ; colour 
brown, obscurely spotted with black and ashy ; apex concolorous, 
and near the apex on each elytron a short oblique ashy line. 
Body beneath and legs ashy brown ; abdomen with a black spot 
on each side of the second to the fourth segments. 
Santarem. 
3. Agennopsis cylindrical n. sp. 
A. elongata, cyiiudrica, obscure fusca ; capite thoraceque lateribus 
fulvis ; elytris lineatim punctatis, prope apicem linea transversa 
flavescente. Long. 4 lin. 
Head irregularly punctured, clothed with yellowish-tawny pu- 
bescence. Antennse black, three basal joints (except the apex of 
the third) tawny. Thorax cylindrical, covered wdth coarse, large 
punctures; dark brown, sides tawny. Elytra linear, singly 
rounded at the apex ; surface punctured in rows, with a mixture 
of large punctures; dull brown, with a straight transverse 
yellowish line near the apex, the space between the line and the 
apex studded with large black punctures. Body beneath coarsely 
punctured, dark grey ; legs blackish. 
Santarem. 
Subtribe Saperditjj. 
Group Calliance. 
Genus Eumathes, Fascoe. 
Pascoe, Trans, Ent. Soc. n. s. iv. p. 251 ; Journal of Entom. i. p. 354. 
The characters of this genus are well defined by Mr. Pascoe, 
in the Journal of Entomology as above referred to. Its position 
is not so well ascertained. The form of the tarsal claws (widely 
