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dingy-grey pubescence. Elytra oval, slightly convex; apex 
obliquely sinuate-truncate, both angles produced, sutural one 
very slightly; surface rather closely and coarsely punctured, 
light brown; each elytron with about eight narrow lines of grey 
pubescence, interrupted in some places. Body beneath and legs 
brownish red; femora abruptly clavate. 
Santarem. The species will come next io L, griseostriatus j 
but it is shorter and more oval and convex than any other Lep- 
turges hitherto described. 
26. Lepturges scutellatus, n. sp. 
L. subovatus, paulo convexus ; thorace fusco-nigro, griseo vario, 
spinis lateralibus validis, rectis, paulo ante basin sitis; elytris 
ovatis, apice breviter oblique truncatis, fulvo-brunneis, nigro 
maculatis, macula magna basali communi fusco-nigra fulvo-cinereo 
marginata. Long. lin. 
Head clothed with tawny-brown pubescence; epistome and 
labrum testaceous ; palpi black. Antennae reddish, tips of joints 
dusky. Thorax widened and rounded from the fore to the hind 
part ; lateral spines stout and uncurved, placed a short distance 
from the hind angles, and the thorax greatly narrowed behind 
them ; surface blackish, varied with silky grey marks. Elytra 
ovate, slightly convex, narrowed near the apex, and briefly and 
obliquely truncated ; surface punctured, tawny brown, varied 
with blackish spots of various sizes, and having over the scutel- 
lar region a large black triangular spot broadly margined with 
tawny ashy. Body beneath dusky tawny, clothed with fine ashy 
pile. Legs dull red ; thighs dusky and distinctly clavate. 
S. Paulo, Upper Amazons. The place of this species will be 
in the second division of the genus, near L, dorcadioides. 
Genus Sporetus. 
3. Sporetus decipienSj n. sp. 
S. elongatus, Colohothece speciei simillimus, setosus, olivaceo-niger ; 
capite cinereo trivittato ; thorace vitta lata lateral! cinerea, medio 
nigro lineolata ; elytris thorace basi duplo latioribus, elongatis, 
sinuato-truncatis, maculis cinereis in lineas transversas flexuosas 
irregulariter ordinatis, apice albo marginatis. Long. 4| lin. S . 
Head narrow, black ; forehead with three ashy stripes, besides 
a streak underneath each eye ; vertex with an ashy central line, 
and a broad lateral stripe, the latter continuous with both the 
lateral stripe of the forehead and the cheek stripe. Antennse 
black, fourth joint ringed with ashy. Thorax very slightly 
widened from the front to beyond the middle, armed at that 
point with a minute tubercle, and then narrowed again to the 
