BY H. J. CARTER. 



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Head widely truncate in front of epistoma, with a setiferous 

 ■puncture inside each angle of the raised border, labrum emargi- 



nate, can thus raised and somewhat 

 nodiform, frontal depression in form 

 of a horseshoe, sparsely punctured, 

 with two foveas near epistoma, sub- 

 mentum coarsely punctured on lateral 

 borders, sharply bidentate near middle, 

 antennae considerably longer than 

 prothorax, (when at rest with three 

 apical joints projecting beyond its 

 base) third joint about as long as 

 fourth and fifth combined, joints 8-10 

 slightly enlarged, eleventh elongate, 

 acuminate. Prothorax 3-5x4: mm., 

 moderately convex, apex truncate, 

 base slightly arcuate (posterior outline 

 convex), apex and base of equal 

 width, sides widest at middle, slightly 

 rounded on anterior half, sinuate on 

 basal half, all angles obtuse and 

 rounded, with narrow raised border 

 throughout, margins not foliaceous 

 b-ut defined by a shallow sulcus, bearing a setiferous punc- 

 ture near anterior angle; disc smooth, impunctate, without 

 central canal (or indicated only by a fovea near front margin), 

 surface a little uneven near basal margin. Scutellum small, 

 rounded, with a narrow triangular sulcus on the adjacent suture. 

 Elytra three times as long as prothorax, and wider than it, 

 acuminate-elliptic, humeri obsolete, epipleural fold not visible 

 from above, greatest width at middle, with eight sulci on each 

 elytron, and two on sides, intervals equal, impunctate, flat near 

 the centre of disc, convex towards sides and apex, epipleurse 

 narrow and smooth; abdomen quite smooth except for a few 

 minute setae bearing fine yellow hairs, and impressions on each 

 segment laterally; all femora emarginate on outside border and 



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^ig. H. — A. sinuaticollis . 



