INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
Bruch us paleatus, Jekel. 
Ovatus, rufus , pectore obscuriore, oculis piceis, tomento jlavo-paleaceo 
dense adspersus ; thorace subconico, latitudine basali multo longiore, 
lateribus minus rotundatis , swpra longitudinaliter parum convexo , 
utrinque ante basin prope angulos obsolete impresso; scutello medi¬ 
ocre, subquadrat.o , breviore, apice modice emarginato , medio longitu¬ 
dinaliter leviter impresso; elytvis breviter ovatis, mox ante apicem 
oblique angustatis , singuli apice anguste semicirculariter rotundato, 
angulo suturali obtusissimo, per paria sub approximate ; pggidio 
semi ova to, thorace multo breviore, obliquo ; apice dejlexo. 
Longit. (cap. infl. cum pygid.) 1^ lin. = 2 T 8 g millim. 
infr. hum. | lin. = l T 6 g millim. 
Patria : Brasilia: Dorn. Dupont. Amazona : Dorn. Saunders. 
This species extremely resembles Z?r. obtectus, Say, and dominicanus , 
Deyr., above described ; but it is still smaller than the former and more 
elongate in all its parts, but shorter in the elytra and longer in the thorax 
than the latter; it is also scarcely half its size. 1 In the Latin diagnosis 
of each of three species, I have endeavoured to point out their differential 
characters; and I think it more serviceable to add the following compara¬ 
tive particulars concerning this species than to give a minute description 
which would not attain the proposed aim of distinguishing the three spe¬ 
cies from each other: — 
Head , eyes, front and rostrum as in Br. obtectus , but the frontal ridge 
is less indicated, and the posterior transverse one is reduced to an obsolete 
impression. Antennae entirely rufous, as in Br. dominicanus. 
Thorax longer and narrower than in obtectus , evidently longer than 
broad, less convex longitudinally (scarcely more than in dominicanus ), the 
sides less rounded ; the posterior impression near the angle is evidently 
circular. 
Scutellum much larger than in dominicanus, but somewhat smaller 
(proportionally) than in obtectus, which it resembles in form, being however 
proportionally shorter, less emarginate at the apex, and also less impressed 
longitudinally. 
Its size is that of Br. granarius, but it is much narrower. 
