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Sympetes denticeps, n.sp. 



Oval, depressed, moderately nitid, glabrous, discal portion 

 above and below, with borders of foliate margins brown, 

 foliate margins of prothorax and elytra yellow, antennae and 

 legs piceous-red, tarsi paler. 



Ih'dd widely truncate and flat in front, labruni just evi- 

 dent, epistoma limited behind by a slight transverse depres- 

 sion, sides almost straight, rather widely raised, and ter- 

 minated at anterior angles in a distinct rectangular tooth, 

 surface minutely granulose ; antennae stout, extending beyond 

 base of prothorax, joints S-l() little wider than- the preced- 

 ing, rounded, eleventh oval. I'rotJiortt.v, 2x7 mm., length 

 measured in middle, width at base : depx-essed, squarely and 

 widely emarginate at apex, sinuate at base, anterior angles 

 sharply rectangular, extending to the full length of head, 

 margins very wide and flat, sides strongly diverging in a 

 regular curve from apex to base, extreme border reflexed, 

 thin and laminate, continuous throughout except at base of 

 disc ; posterior angles acute, produced backwards and slightly 

 incurved at the tip : foliate margins closely and strongly 

 punctate, above and below ; disc carinate in middle, slightly 

 gibbous near base, otherwise strongly depressed and minutely 

 punctate. Scutellum transversely triangular and minutely 

 punctate. EJi/trd 9x8 mm., disc to combined margins as 

 9:7, narrower than prothorax at base, shoulders obtusely 

 angulate, sides very gradually widening to apical third, 

 widely rounded at apex ; extreme border finely reflexed and 

 vertical (seen sideways convex, and wider than that of ])ro- 

 thorax) foliate margins wide, in general horizontal but un- 

 dulate, and forming slight three-fold gibbosities. Disc 

 strongly carinate at suture : more convex than pronotum, 

 with three nearly equidistant costae on each elytron, the first 

 two more strongly marked and continuous to the base, the 

 third only evident posteriorly, the whole surface dotted with 

 round punctures, intervals slightly rugose. I'l-osfmni in non- 



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