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BOLBONOTA QUADRIPUNCTATA, n.s. 
(Plate X. fig. 3 to 3e.) 
General colour grey-black, punctured ; pronotum with six obscure indentations, 
forming deep ridges on the dorsum ; apex truncated; tegmina dark purplish-brown? 
with paler yellowish neuration, and having two conspicuous white spots on each 
disc; nervures fringed with golden hairs ; antennae obvious. 
Hind-tibiae prismatic and strongly toothed; fore-tibiae spatolate with yellow 
tarsi. 
Size of body 3x2 mm. 
Hope Coll. (Miers). 
Habitat. —Brazil. 
Except from their minuteness, some of these Bolbonotae might recall the forms of 
the Bombi or humble-bees. 
BOLBONOTA QUINQUE-LINEATA, n.s. 
(Plate X. fig. 4.) 
Globose; small and uniformly umber-brown ; pronotum very rugose, with one 
central and two lateral ridges or carinae on each side near the anterior part of 
the pronotum. The dorsal outline shows one small rounded protuberance near the 
pointed apex of the posterior end, and a smaller one before the same. 
Tegmina short, brownish-red, obscurely veined and with rounded apices; second 
tibiae large and spatulate. 
Size 4x3 mm. 
Miers Coll. Hope Mus. 
BOLBONOTA ATOMARIA, Walk. 
(Plate X. fig. 5, 5a, 5b.) 
Small, coal-black, shining; finely punctured ; very rugose ; pronotal apex sharp, 
but not reaching to the tips of the tegmina; the wings are inconspicuous, and lie 
very closely to the abdomen ; first and second tibiae spatulate ; hind tibiae simple, but 
serrated; metopidium with five carinae ; tarsi ferruginous. 
Size 4x3 mm. 
Pascoe Coll, in the B.M. 
Habitat .—liio Janeiro, S. America, 
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