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INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
in that part; the other striae obsolete; interstices flat, extremely finely 
punctate-alutaceous ; covered with a brown pile, adorned with whitish 
markings; viz., 1st, a common sutural patch from the base to one-third of 
the length, where it is emarginate, encircling the scutellum, straight at the 
sides, but leaving near them an oblong brown spot behind the base ; 2nd, 
a subquadrangular spot, near the suture behind the middle, close to the ex¬ 
ternal side of which is joined a more or less interrupted thin line, extended 
upwards near the basal patch ; 3rd, a basal oblong-quadrangular spot near 
the shoulder, to which is added another thin line similar and parallel 
to the preceding, but more shortened behind ; 4th, three submarginal spots 
or dots, one triangular, behind the base and marginal, another elongate, at 
one-third of the length, and the last ovate, behind the two-thirds ; 5th, a 
subapical transverse sinuated mark, yellower than the others. 
Pygidium oblong (length ^ lin.), subperpendicular, conic-subquadrate ; 
apex subtruncate, with the angles rounded ; convex ; punctate-alutaceous, 
clothed with brownish pile ; a central line and the lateral margin thin 
and whitish. 
Body beneath clothed with a thin light gray pile. Pectus margined 
with dense yellowish, interrupted in the middle with a quadrangular brown 
spot. Segments of the abdomen also margined with spots of the same 
colour. 
Legs clothed with a light thin grayish pile; apex of all the tibiae and 
tarsi, and an external spot at the apex of the thighs, brownish. 
PlEENITHON IRBORATUS, Jekel. 
Breviter ovatus , nigro-piceus , tomento fusco subtus tenuiori tectus; capite , 
rostro, thorace supra , elytris , lateribusque abdominis guttulis nume- 
rosis partim plagiatim condensatis , thorace infra , pec tore, femoribus 
omnibus tibiis quatuor anticis toio y tibiis posticis tarsisque omni¬ 
bus basi apiceque tomento flavo-subvirescente ornatis; rostro brevi; 
thorace transverso , subconico, basi sinuato; elytris convexis , brevius- 
culis , basi sinuatis , lateribus apiceque injlexis; pigidio subconico , 
apice rotundato , inflexo; tarsis anterioribus latis. 
Longit. (rostr. excl.) 3^ lin. = 7^ millim. 
Latit. hum. If lin. = 4 millim. 
Patria : Amazona, Dom. Bates. 
