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5. Odontocera parallela, 
White^ Cat, Longic. Brit. Mus. p. 189. 
Pallide flava ; antennis nigro-annulatis ; thoracis 
dorso lineis duabus parallelis nigris ; elytris apice an- 
gustatis^ singulis linea marginali nigro-fusca ; pedibus 
posticis subbirsntis^ femoribus tibiisque apice fusco- 
nigris.'’^ (White.) 
Long. lin. S' ? • 
The sexes^ which I took in copula, do not differ in 
colour, and very little in the length of the antennge, or 
form of abdomen. The antenna are scarcely those of 
the typical Odontocerce, being slender, with the 7th- 11th 
joints shortened and thickened, and not at all serrate; 
they are, however, even in the S , decidedly shorter than 
the abdomen, which character separates the species from 
Ommata, while the thickened apices distinguish it from 
Agaone, to which the species bears some resemblance. 
The elytra, however, are shorter by one-fourth than the 
abdomen, and have vitreous discs. The hind femora 
are abruptly clavate. 
River Tapajos. 
6. Odontocera mellea. 
White, Cat. Longic. Brit. Mus. p. 188. 
Melleo-flava, antennis nigro-annulatis ; elytris cor- 
pore multo brevioribus, basi punctate, membranaceo, 
tunc vitreo, apice attenuate nigro ; abdomine subtus 
medio nigro.^-’ (White.) 
Long. lin. d'. 
Whitens description applies only to the S ; the $ is 
totally different in coloration, being sooty-black, with 
the head and antenna fulvous, spotted with black, the 
legs dusky, with the middle part of the femora pitchy- 
red, and the apex of the abdomen yellowish. The abdo- 
men, in most examples of the $ , is black from the base, 
with the apex yellow, and the hind femora are black at 
the base. 
The antennae, in this species, are perfectly filiform, 
being neither thickened nor serrate towards the apex. 
