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thick; femora edentate, the four posterior (and less noticeably the 

 anterior) grooved almost their entire length for reception of tibise, 

 posterior just passing apex of elytra; tibiie compressed, slightly 

 curved; tarsi rather long, thick, 3rd joint not widely bilobed, 4th 

 thick, inserted almost at extreme base of 3rd, squamosej claws 

 free, not widely separated. Parallel-sided, convex, squamose, 

 punctate, granulate, tuberculate, apterous. 



Separated from Poropterus on account of the shape and position 

 of mesosternal receptacle, shape of 2nd abdominal segment and 

 strongly depressed intermediates, and the grooved femora. 



PsEUDOPOROPTERUS LEMUR, Pasc; Mast. Cat. Sp. No. 5431. 



(Poropterus leniur, Pasc.) 



Thick, subcylindrical. Black, opaque ; antennje and claws 

 piceous. Clothed all over with minute, uniformly muddy or 

 sooty-brown scales, a few more elongate towards sides. Under 

 surface with similar scales to upper, but with the minute ones 

 still more minute and the long ones longer, especially on legs. 

 Head and rostrum equally clothed with minute scales, but the 

 head from the middle to a short distance on rostrum with elongate 

 scales. Ciliation of ocular lobes short, golden-yellow. 



Head flat ; ocular fovea elongate, almost obsolete. Rostrum 

 thick, almost parallel to apex, coarsely punctate, punctures some- 

 times concealed, a feeble groove at sides on basal two-thirds, three 

 feeble irregular carinse between antennae. Scape inserted about 

 two-fifths from apex of rostrum and just reaching apex; 1st joint 

 of funicle thick, but narrower than the others, 2nd once and one- 

 half the length of 1st and nearly as long as the four following 

 coml)ined, 2nd-7th with three or four rows of coarse setje; club 

 free, subpyriform. Prothorax slightly longer than wide, and 

 wider than deep; apex produced, narrow, subtruncate, not half 

 the width of base; obliquely increasing in width to slightly in 

 advance of middle, from thence feebly decreasing to base; densely 

 granulate, the granules largest near base. Elytra not wider than 

 greatest width of prothorax, and not once and one-half its length; 



