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lighter flavescent markings, of which two spots in the middle, a slender 
oblique line on each side above the basal black macula, diverging up¬ 
wards with the opposite mark towards the side, and a lateral spot above the 
middle, are the most evident. 
I know only one specimen of this species. 
Tribotropis (Tropipygus) speciosus, King. 
Parum elongatus, niger , tomento albido supra plus minusve—infra magis— 
jlavescente tectus , thoracis lineis duabus medio plus minusve interruptis 
elytrorumque maculis partim confluentibus nigro-holosericeis ; rostro 
elongato, basi angusto, carina media obsoleta basi interrupta in fronte 
valde elevata instructo ; thorace angusto, suboblongo, laieribus parum 
rotundato-ampliatis, carina postica medio late interrupta antrorsum 
versus medium laterum oblique ducta et terminata, disco parum 
impresso ; elytris basi truncatis, elevato-marginatis, pro humeris 
parum oblique sed satis ampliatis , lateribus mox pone basin sub- 
strangulatis, dein ultra medium paullo ampliatis, versus apicem rotun- 
dato-angustatis, dorso lateribusque longitudinaliter deplanatis cum 
elevatione longitudinali intra-laterali alteraque marginali convexis , 
depressiones separantibus et circumscribentibus,postice oblique circu- 
lariter declivibus, vix callosis. 
$ Angustior: elytris pone medium parum ampliatis, subparallelis ; 
antennis corpore dimidio longioribus , articulis successive tenuiori- 
bus et longioribus, anterioribus sat crassis, deplanatis, obsolete 
canaliculatis, apice magis clavatis; clava elongatissima, angustis- 
sima, articulo lo pracedente funiculi haud breviore, apice albido 
tincto, 2o minuto, primo sextuplo breviore, latitudine parum longiore, 
obconico, ultimo primo breviore , apice incurvo, acutissimo ; rostro 
magis elongato, latitudine basali subtriplo longiore; thorace magis 
elongato et angustato, latitudine multo longiore. 
9 Latior: elytris pone medium magis ampliatis; antennis basin ely- 
trorum multo superantibus, articulis funiculi latis, planatis, 3—8 
successive brevioribus et apice minus ampliatis; clava elongata, 
parum lata, articulo lo, oblongo-conico, prcecedente funiculi paullo 
longiore, cum illo albido tincto, 2o primo plus duplo breviore, sub- 
