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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
Pygidium semicircular, deflexed, clothed and irrorated like the 
thorax. 
Body beneath clothed like the upper parts. Pectus irrorated with 
yellowish. Abdomen more sparingly clothed with thinner whitish pile. 
Legs coloured, clothed and irrorated like the upper parts : the fulvous 
irroration condensed behind the base and at the apex of the tibiae, and on 
the greater part of the first joint of the tarsi. 
Camptotropis tristis ( Chevrolat ). 
Breviter ovatus , niger , tomento tenui obscure fusco dense tectus , supra 
parcissime , infra densius albido-adspersus ; antennis obscure rufis; 
tibiis tarsisque nigro-fiavoque tessellatis ; rostro latiusculo , latitudine 
baud breviore , deplanato , basi utrinque supra oculos parum impresso ; 
oculis mediocribus ; thorace transverso, subconico , angulis posticis 
iruncatis , extra sed non versus elytra productis, carina postica sinua- 
tim convexo-arcuata , medio e basi distante, cum angulis posticis 
juncta ; elytris basi singulatim obtuse rotundatis , versus medium 
baud ampliatis, punctato-striatis, interstitiis planis, intra basin prope 
suturam callo lato integro instructis. 
$ Antennis mox ultra medium elytrorum attingentibus , clava oblonga, 
deplanata, articulis parum disjunctis, lo longo , conico , 2 o subcya- 
thiformi, transverso, ultimo breviter ovato. 
$ Hue VLsque mild ignota. 
Longit. (cap. iufl.) —3 lin. = 5 T |—7 millim. 
Latit. med. elytr. 1§—f lin. = 3 T ' g —3 T 8 g millim. 
Patria: Brasilia, Dom. Dupont. 
Synon.: Corrhecerus tristis , Chevr. in litt. Camptotropis unicolor, 
Jekel in litt. 
This species greatly resembles Camp, gracilicornis in its general 
shape, but it is proportionally broader; the rostrum is narrower, more elon¬ 
gate ; the eyes are smaller, leaving the forehead wider; the thorax, also 
produced in the upper part of the apex, is scarcely emarginate in the 
middle and behind the eyes; its posterior carina is sinuated, though pre- 
