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palpi forms a sort of triangular raised space, which on a cur- 

 sory view might easily be mistaken for a tooth in the middle of 

 the mentum^ although more careful examination under a suffi- 

 ciently high power shows that it may be separated from it, and, 

 in point of fact, does not belong to it at all ; so that it is not 

 difficult to see how authors even of such standing and acknow- 

 ledged accuracy as those referred to, should have fallen into this 

 misconception. 



1. N. Championi, mihi. 



Parum depressus, nitidus, fuscus vel piceus ; ore, antennis, tho- 

 racis lateribus, elytrorum marginibus, macula basali et fascia 

 irregulari apicali atque pedibus, testaceis ; capite fere Isevi, 

 mandibulis non valde prominentibus ; thorace late marginato; 

 elytris striato-punctatis, interstitiis convexis et impunctatis, 

 apice oblique truncato et excise, angulo exteriore apicali acuto; 

 unguiculis pectinatis. 



Long. 4 lin., lat. If lin. 



Slightly depressed, shining, brown, with the mouth and an- 

 tennae, the margins of the thorax and elytra, a patch towards the 

 base and a jagged irregular band towards the apex of the latter, 

 and also the legs, testaceous. Head equally broad in front and 

 behind, nearly smooth, with some faint wrinkles upon it, and 

 two considerable depressions on each side, one on the inside of 

 the eye, and the other larger before it ; clypeus transverse, de- 

 pressed in front ; labrum rather broad, and not tapering, rounded 

 at the anterior angles, slightly emarginate, and with a shallow 

 longitudinal groove in the middle in front ; mandibles slightly 

 rounded exteriorly, not much projecting; antennae darker to- 

 wards the apex, slightly flattened and thickened from the end of 

 the fourth joint to the apex ; eyes large and prominent. Thorax 

 abroad, short, transverse, and somewhat cordiform, with very 

 broad, shallow, semitransparent, reflexed margins, marked in 

 the bottom with faint transverse depressions or fovese; disk 

 slightly convex, with a longitudinal dorsal line reaching from 

 the front to the base, and a semicircular impression in front ; 

 faintly marked with transverse wrinkles ; posterior angles some- 

 what obtuse. Scutellum impunctate. Elytra broader than thorax, 

 slightly expanded posteriorly, punctate-striate, interstices convex 

 and impunctate; a fovea on the second stria near the apex, an- 

 other about a third of the length of the elytra from the apex, 

 and another on the third stria, about the same distance from 

 the base; the exterior interstice with a series of round flat- 

 bottomed fovese ; margin inflexed, both the inflexed portion and 

 the raised edge of margin testaceous ; an oblique irregular 



