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with golden yellow pubescence, supra-antennal ridges strong, parallel behind 

 the antennal insertion but, viewed from above, slightly convergent in front 

 of it. Immediately behind the eyes is a very faint constriction posterior 

 to which the neck gradually becomes a little wider. The vertex shows a few 

 inconspicuous transverse wrinkles but there are no punctures on the head 

 except the setigerous ones. Prothorax impunctate, length, along median 

 line, almost exactly equal to its greatest breadth, narrowly cord form, base 

 slightly narrower than the apex, broadest a little in front of the middle whence 

 the sides are regularly arcuate anteriorly but convergent and nearly straight 

 posteriorly to near the hind angles where they are sinuate, the angles somewhat 

 obtuse and rounded, marginal bead strong but narrow, median impressed 

 line distinct, of nearly uniform depth throughout, anterior transverse impres- 

 sion moderate, basal impressions so indented as to give a bilobed aspect to 

 that part of the pronotal disk. As in allied species, the disk is narrowed be- 

 hind more rapidly than the flanks so that these latter are visible from above 

 on each side near the base. Elytra elongate oval, bluntly pointed behind, the 

 humeri so broadly rounded as to fade gradually into the sides which are gently, 

 hardly visibly, arcuate in median third but rather rapidly narrowed towards 

 the apex. Margin fine but strong, rerlexed, disk with eleven fine and nearly 

 regular striae (the ninth, however, rather confused), these striae finely but not 

 closely nor deeply punctured, the space between the eleventh and the outer 

 margin becoming rugose by confluence of the punctuation and obliteration 

 of the striae. Intervals impunctate except an indistinct series of two or three 

 punctures behind the middle of the fourth and a few similar impressions on 

 the eighth and ninth, these, however, not alike on the two sides. Legs 

 long, front tarsi with three joints dilated and densely papillose beneath, 

 middle tibiae with a brush of moderately long golden pubescence externally, 

 extending over about the apical third. Body beneath impunctate. 



Two females are similar to the male in form and general characters and with 

 brush of hair on the middle tibiae. In them, thirteen or fourteen striae can 

 be made out rather plainly, but this is true also of a second male, the type 

 specimen being more rugose towards the sides than any of the paratypes. 

 There is also a decided variation in the number and position of the scattered 

 punctiform impressions on the elytral intervals. 



Length, male type, 17.3 mm.; greatest width 6.3 mm.; Female paratype, 

 length 22 mm.; width 7.75 mm. 



According to Dr. Roeschke's description of his subgcnus Pseudo- 

 nomaretus [Annales Musei Xationalis Hungarici V. 1907, 117 

 and 154] there should be a bristle in the prothoracic hind angles 

 as well as the median marginal one on each side. In a later 

 paper [Memoirs on the Coleoptera, V. 1914, 30] Col. Casey re- 

 stricts this name to the group centering in ( 'yclints relictus Horn. 

 In the four specimens of mannii at hand, only the median bristle 

 is visible nor can any puncture be made out in the hind angles 



