142 
IN8ECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
Genus PHiENITHON, Sch. 
Pieenithon bajulus {Dejean). 
Oblongo-ovatus, subtruncatus, niger , tomento supra brunneo subtus pedi- 
busque griseo-albido sericeo tectus ; rostro toto, capitis lineis duabus 
obliquis supra ,—duabusque infra ocularibus, thoracis lineis tribus 
dorsalibus (externis latis obliquis ) unaque infra-laterali utrinque cum 
plaga infera antice posticeque juncta , elytrorum puncto submar- 
ginali ante apicem lituraque apicali sinuata transversa, pygidii lineis 
duabus pectorisque plaga laterali basali alteraque apicali fulvo-jla- 
vescentibus ; thorace oblongo-conico ; elytris subparallelis , obsolete 
punctato-striatis , maculis lineolisque griseo-albidis ornatis; thorace 
subtus lineola abbreviata alteraque medio lateris pectoris quadrata 
brunneis ; pygidio oblongo-conico , truncato , convexo , dejlexo-perpen- 
diculari. 
Longit. (cap. infl.) lin. = &k millim. 
Latit. 1^ lin. = 2 T | millim. 
Patria: Cayenna. 
Synon.: Phcenithon bajulus , Dej.Cat. ed. 3, pag. 236. Ph. lineatocollis , 
Lacord. in litt. 
This species is allied to Ph. Jiguratus , Sch., in form, and belongs to 
the same Schonherrian division (Stirps I.), but it is not half its size, being 
only that of Ph. semigriseus , Germ.; it is, nevertheless, much narrower 
and less convex than the latter, and belongs to a different division. 
Head subhorizontal, longitudinally convex, slightly exserted behind 
the eyes, conically narrowed towards the rostrum by these organs; clothed 
with a brown pile, and adorned above with two oblique yellow-fulvous lines, 
and beneath with another at the margin of the eye, the former following 
the inne v edge of these organs, and connected towards the rostrum- 
Eyes large, convex, extended outwards, deeply but narrowly subangularly 
emarginate anteriorly, approaching nearly in front, with their inner border 
obliquely approaching in nearly a straight line towards the rostrum, leaving 
there the forehead hardly one-fourth of the total width, which they circum¬ 
scribe. Rostrum perpendicular, as wide as the head, but scarcely half its 
