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Show 1889.] NEW SPECIES OF EROTYLID^E. 615 4. AMBLYSCELIS 1 FERRUGINEUS, sp. nov. Elongatus, postice subangustatus, totus ferrugineus, subnitidus, supra crebre subtiliter, infra crebre fortius punctatus ; elgtris striatis, striis subtilissime crenulatis, interstitiis minute punctatis. Long. 7*|-8 millim. Hab. S. Africa (Natal) (coll. Gorham, Mus. Leyden) (Finsch). Head with the front thickly, the crown more sparsely but more deeply punctured, the front edge of the epistome angularly but not deeply emarginate. The antennse not reaching the base of the thorax, their club fuscous. Thorax transverse, the disc rather convex and the front angles depressed, finely but thickly punctured. Elytra with the humeral callus more distinct than in A. natalensis, Crotch, widest at the base, the interstices flat, except near the callus, where the strise are deeper. The legs are as in A. natalensis, the thighs rather stout and compressed, the tibise very strongly triangularly widened near the apex, and setose externally at this part. Episterna and sides of the metasternum rather strongly punctate. No abdominal lines. I received about a dozen specimens of this insect from the Rev. Canon Fowler, who obtained them from Boucard's collections; also one specimen communicated from Mr. Ritsema. 5. BRACHYSPHENUS EGENSIS, sp. nov. (Plate LXI. fig. 8.) Oblongo-ovatus, parum convexus, pallide castaneus, nitidus; elytris nigris, tenuiter flavo-marginatis, sutura et limbo laterali angustius fuscis, distincte punctato-striatis; antennis fuscis, articulis tribus basi pedibusque rufis. Long. 8 millim. Hab. Amazons, Ega (Bates) ; Guiana, Cayenne (Reiche; coll. Crotch). Head and thorax very even and nearly smooth, yet not glabrous, owing to being very finely alutaceous and with indistinct stellate punctuation ; the latter is at the base twice as wide as long, narrower in front; the sides rounded, the excavation in front rather deep and its base straight; prosternum much compressed, so as to be distinctly carinate in front, yet not projecting. Elytra widest a very little below the base, narrowed to the apex, the black discoidal plagia extending very evenly from the second to the seventh stria; beyond which, on the yellow margin, there is only the least trace of an eighth stria, near the apex usually about eight punctures. Meta-sternal and abdominal lines are distinct, the former long and reflexed but fine. Two specimens in M r Armitage's collection, and two in the Cambridge collection. May be placed next B. cordiger. 6. BRACHYSPHENUS UCAYALENSIS, sp. nov. (Plate LXI. fig. 6.) Oblongo-ovatus, rubidus, verticis puncto thoracisque punctis decern nigris; elytris nigris, juxta scutellum macula angusta Amblyscelis, Gorham, Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. x. 1888, p. 144. |