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nizes with Chalcolyne in the majority of its characters. Mr. 
Alexander Fry^ who has paid especial attention to the Saper- 
ditse and their allies, having examined my specimens, is inclined 
to think that the insect on which I have founded the genus 
Chalcolyne is a male individual of a species of Eumimesis. The 
great difference in the antennae, in the absence of positive evi- 
dence of identity, forbids, however, the fusion of the two forms 
into one genus. 
Eumimesis heilipoides, n. sp. 
E. speciebus Heilipi generis Curculionidarum simillima, oblonga, 
fusco-ferruginea, dense breviter setosa ; thorace utrinque vitta lata, 
elytris vitta lata basali et macula inagna subapicali sordide albis. 
Long. 6 lin, 5 ? 
Head dark red, hispid and thinly clothed with whitish recum- 
bent pile. Antennae dark red, fifth joint and apices of third to 
eleventh joints black, bases grey. Thorax subcylindrical, a little 
narrowed in front ; sides each armed with a small acute tubercle, 
thickly punctured, rusty brown, each side marked with a broad 
tawny-white vitta. Elytra oblong, broadly rounded at the apex, 
surface in the middle depressed and very closely punctured, the 
sides over the tomentose whitish parts sparsely punctured, over 
the naked parts closely so ; from the base to beyond the middle of 
each runs a tawny- white stripe, thickest in the middle, and 
within the apex is a similarly coloured rounded spot composed 
of dense tomentum, the edges of the elytra and a large tri- 
angular spot between the vitta and the apical patch being dark 
and shining. Body beneath and legs rusty red, sprinkled with 
grey tomentum. The whole body clothed with short erect hairs. 
St. Paulo, Upper Amazons. 
This insect, from its colour and form, bears a most deceptive 
resemblance to many species of Heilipus, a genus of Curcu- 
lionidse. 
Genus Hastatis, Buquet. 
Buquet, in Thoms. Archives Entom. i. p. 338. 
In this genus the body is oblong, slightly convex, and beset 
with short bristles. The head is moderately short, depressed 
between the antenniferous tubercles ; the eyes are rather small. 
The anteimse are about the length of the body, and clothed 
above and beneath with short, stiff hairs. The lateral tubercles 
of the thorax are acute and spiniform. The elytra are rounded 
at the apex, and depressed in the middle. The mesosternum 
is prominent in front. The thighs are clavate, the tarsi short 
and broad, with a broad tooth at the base of each claw. 
