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obsolete, the striae rather deep, feeble laterally, the scutellar strong, 

 tending to unite with the first, which is deflexed basally; the striae 

 are obsoletely and finely punctulate and, in apical half near the 

 second, there are about four and basal half of the third two, 

 rather large impressed setigerous punctures; the marginal foveae 

 are very small and are present only near base and apex. The legs 

 are thick and rather short, the femora not notably stout, the 

 anterior and middle tibiae somewhat inflated, the former on the 

 posterior face and the latter on the anterior face, covered thickly 

 with short stiff spinules arising from coarse deep punctures; all 

 the tarsi are spinose beneath in both sexes, the anterior not dilated 

 in the male though rather thick short and tapering, the others 

 slender and filiform, the basal joint of the posterior not as long as 

 the next two. The prosternal process is unusually narrow and 

 constricted between the coxae. 



Piosoma Lee. 



The body here is very much as in Cratacanthus in external form 

 but somewhat stouter, strongly convex, shining, the head moder- 

 ately large, with rather prominent eyes and slender filiform com- 

 pressed antennae, the third joint but little longer than the second 

 or fourth, the upper surface with fine punctures throughout and a 

 transverse interrupted series of coarse punctures on a line with 

 the posterior limit of the eyes; the frontal foveae are small and 

 punctiform; the prothorax is transverse, equal in width to the elytra 

 or nearly so, the sides feebly converging and broadly sinuate 

 posteriorly to the right and sharply marked angles, the surface 

 with numerous very coarse punctures toward base and sides, the 

 base transverse and margined throughout, the apex feebly sinuate 

 and with broadly rounded angles. The elytra are notably short, 

 parallel, very obtusely rounded at apex, the sinus completely 

 obsolete. The legs are moderate in length, not very thick, the 

 hind tarsi filiform, with the basal joint but little longer than the 

 second. All the coarse punctures of the upper surface bear very 

 long bristling setae, those at the sides of the prothorax forming a 

 conspicuous loose fringe. There seem to be three species as follows: 



Elytra with all the intervals uniseriately punctate 2 



Elytra with only the alternate intervals so punctured 3 



