of the Amazon Valley. 
423 
$ . Tliorace castaneo-rufo, supra fossato^ puuctulato- 
opaco, lateribus medio angulatis ; abdomine griseo-lanu- 
ginoso. 
9 . Thorace nigro, nitido, absque fossulis distinctis ; 
abdomine nigro, nudo. 
Long. 10-12 lin. ^ $ . 
Hah. — Santarem; on bushes in the Campo or open 
districts. 
Genus Georgia. 
Thomson, Archiv. Entom. i. 21; Lacord. Gen. ix. 148. 
1. Georgia xanthomelas. 
Phcedinus xanthomelas, White, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1856, 
p. 408. 
Georgia citrina, Thoms. Arch. Ent. i. 21, pi. ix. f. 1, 2. 
Nigra, elytris stramineis, tertia parte apicali maculaque 
utrinque discoidali ante medium nigro-velutinis ; ab- 
domine testaceo. 
Long. 8 lin. 
Villa Nova. 
Found on one occasion, flying low across a pathway in 
the forest. Four examples only were taken. 
Sub-fam. TROPIDOSOMATINiE. 
Genus Tropidosoma. 
Perty, Del. An. Art. Bras. p. 85 ; Lacord. Gen. ix. 150. 
1. Tropidosoma penniferum, n. sp. 
T. dilaticorni (Gory) simile ; elongato-ovatum, valde 
convexum, fulvo-ochraceum, capitis vertice, thoracis 
maculis duabus magnis dorsalibus, elytrorum marginibus 
lateralibus, macula post-hurnerali et tertia parte posteriori 
antice obliquata, nigris ; antennis breyissimis, articulis a 
3io compresso-dilatatis, imprimis latissimis, apicem versus 
cito angustatis, articulis duobus flavis basalibus exceptis. 
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