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DESCRIPTIO GENERIS. 



CHARACTER ESSENTIALIS. 



***** Antennis clava Integra tnjlata. 

 Pausus. Antennas Particulate, clava uncinata pedtcellata mobili. 



CHARACTER ARTIFICIALIS. 



Pausus. Antenna biarticulatae, articulo fuperiore maximo inflate- un- 

 cinatopedicellato: pedicello in cavitate articuli inferioris 



mobili. 

 Caput porreftum : gula triangulo convexo inftructa. 

 Thorax anguftus insequalis fcutellatus. 

 Elytra flexilia deflexa truncata. 

 Pedes antici pectoris parti anticae affixi : femoribus appen- 



diculatis : tarfis quadriarticulatis. 



CHARACTER NATURALIS. 



Palpi quatuor inaequales obtufi, ban trianguli gularis affixi. 



interiores medii, triplo longiores, divergentes, intus plani 

 extra convexi, ban biarticulati, interius pauloque altius 

 collocati. 

 exteriores laterales, minuti, erecli, fetacei, compreffi, arti- 

 cnlis deftituti, margini exteriori bafeos trianguli gularis 

 inferti. 

 Mandibular porrefta? arcuate accuminatae forcipatx, bad biarticulat.se, 

 dein e vaginis duabus corneis introrsum dilatatis truncatis, 

 quarum infera latior, bidenticulatae, et tandem hamulo 

 vaginis anguftiore cylindraceo carneo terminate. 

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