146 Mr. SezNce's Monograph of the Genus Choleva. 
TnuNcUs. Thorax nigro-fuscus, ad margines fusco-testaceus, transversus, brevior et 
- anticé angustior quàm in precedente, margine basilari utrinque ad angulos magis 
levitér exciso. Coleoptra rubricosa (sive rufo-testacea) thorace tripló feré longiora 
et pauló latiora, striis obsoletis, sed a basi usque feré ad apicem ductis, Pedes 
rufo-ferruginei. 
ABDOMEN subleve, segmentis ventralibus apice brevissimé — ano parum rufes- 
cente, ; 
From the preceding, the only species with which it is likely to 
be confounded, this differs in colour; in having the thorax 
shorter in proportion to its width, narrower before, and the exci- 
sions at the angles more obsolete ; and the elytra more densely 
clothed with pubescence. 
* * b. 
T. Cuorzva chrysomeloides. 
C. oblongo-ovalis, nigra, antennis basi, tibiis, tarsisque rufo- 
brunneis;. antennis fæmineis fusiformi-clavatis, crassis: articulo 
extimo ovato, contiguis longiore. 
Latr. Gen. Crust. et Ins. ii. 29. 4. 
Helops chrysomeloides, Panz. Faun. Germ. 57. 1. 
. Long. Corp. 23 lin. Lat. 14 lin. 
Habitat ——— Mus. D. Kirby, Watson, Wilkin, Nostr. 
B. D. J. Hooker. ; 
DESCR. CORPUS ovale, nigrum, pube densà giised fillvéstente linde, E — 
pube abrasä, subtilissimé punctato-rugulosum, 
CaPvuT confertissimé punctulatum. Palpi rufo-brunnei. Mandibule latere i interiori 
sub apice emarginato vel unidentato. Antenne in famina subfusiformes, crasse, 
: thorace tertià parte breviores, in mare pauló tenuiores longiores ; basi rufo- 
brunnez ; articulis 1—3 subequalibus obconicis : 2do contiguis paulo. breviore ; 
4—6 turbinatis, precedentibus dimidio brevioribus; 7, 9 et 10 sub-pateraeformi- 
bus ; 8vo contiguis triplo: breviore et multd angustiore ; extimo precedente fer& 
dupló longiore, articuli tertii longitudine, ovato. 
Truncus. Thorax subquadratus, longitudine paulo latior, lateribus rotundatis, ad an- 
gulos posticos subrectis ; margine basilari subrecto, excisionibus apud angulos 
nullis, 
