a Family of Coleopterous Insects. 663 



Nova species. Subcylindricus, toto ferrugineo testaceus, puncta- 

 tissimus, nitidus, subpubescens. Caput latum, thorace paul^ 

 minus, supra convexum, spind erecta verticali, acuta, seti- 

 gerd ; margine antico vix emarginato ; post oculos in col- 

 lum contractum. Oculi magni laterales. Antennce articulo 

 basali crasso, dilatato, clavcique brevi latd thorace paul6 

 majori, subovatd, basi latiori, truncate et externe in spinam 

 product^, supra pariim convexa irregulari, eminentiis dua- 

 bus (sc. basi et post medium,) subtils multo convexiori 

 praesertim in regionem basalem, margine omni acuto. Tho- 

 rax capite paulo latior, subconvexus et quasi bipartitus, 

 portio antica major elevatior, latior, lateribus rotundatis et 

 e portione postica impressione transversa tenui (at in medio 

 profundiori, anticb postic^que paul6 producta) separata, 

 portio postica brevis depressa, lateribus iexh rectis vel pos- 

 tic^ paululiim oblique protensis. Elytra thorace latiora, 

 subcylindrica, abdominis apicem non tegentia, oblongo- 

 quadrata, nitida, evidenter punctatissima. Fedes breves, 

 femoribus tibiisque compressis. 



I am indebted toM.le Comte Dejean for permission to describe 

 and figure this species from his cabinet. It is with considerable 

 doubt that I place it in the genus Flatyrhopalus, (although the 

 structure of the thorax and the flatness of the antennae approach 

 the typical species of that genus,) the cornuted head appearing 

 to give it an affinity with the Faussi, such as P.sphcerocerus, Sfc: 

 but from a note made in Paris, I have a slight idea that the 

 labial palpi have the joints of equal length. 



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