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separated from Towoscelus in having the pronotum more even 
and convex, the femora not toothed on the inner side, and by 
the tibize being straight, while in that genus they are very ar- 
cuate, leaving a space between them and the femora when 
closed. From Metasambus Kerrem., to which it is also allied, it 
can be separated by the lateral edge of the pronotum being 
smooth and not crenulate as in that genus. 
Neotoxoscelus bakeri sp. nov. 
Elongate, subparallel, feebly convex; above rather shining, 
dark brown, with a strong violaceous tinge, pubescence on elytra 
forming irregular designs; beneath piceous, with a strong pur- 
plish bronze tinge. 
Head cupreous, with the front feebly convex, broadly exca- 
vated on vertex and occiput, causing the sides to be feebly 
gibbose; surface sparsely punctate and vaguely strigose, the 
intervals finely granulate, glabrous; epistoma broadly emargin- 
ate in front; eyes not quite as remote as in N. luzonicus. 
Pronotum one-half wider than long, widest at basal third, slight- 
ly wider in front than behind; sides feebly, arcuately rounded 
to basal third, then suddenly, arcuately narrowed to posterior 
angles, which are very broadly rounded; anterior margin 
rather deeply emarginate, with a broadly rounded median lobe, 
the anterior angles acute; base deeply bisinuate, with a large, 
broadly rounded lobe in front of scutellum; lateral carina 
long, sinuous and strongly elevated, distant from the mar- 
gin and reaching from the apical fifth to the base; sur- 
face concave between lateral carina and margin, with a broad, 
transverse depression along basal third, becoming deeper toward 
lateral carina, sparsely punctate and feebly strigose, the inter- 
vals becoming densely granulate toward lateral margin, sparsely 
clothed with long, brown and white, recumbent pubescence. 
Scutellum broadly triangular, surface finely strigose. Elytra 
at base slightly narrower than widest part of pronotum, slightly 
flattened on disk, with the basal depressions shallow and a 
vaguely transverse depression at apical fourth; humeral angles 
obtusely rounded; sides strongly sinuate at posterior cox, 
broadly expanded just behind middle, then gradually narrowed 
to tips, which are very broadly, conjointly rounded and finely 
dentate; surface densely, coarsely punctate and vaguely rugose, 
sparsely clothed with long brown and white pubescence, the 
white pubescence forming designs a8 follows: Each elytron 
with an elongate series along suture behind scutellum, a large 
