U\ 11. J. CARTER. 



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^. Head and prothorax microscopically punctate, the former 

 with epistoma in front produced into a short, raised, semi- 

 lobate process in the middle, limited behind by a deep suture, 

 frontal stirrup-shaped impression well marked and foveate at 

 base; eyes narrow and transverse, antennae stout, extending to 

 base of prothorax, third joint longer than fourth, 4-10 successively 

 widening, eleventh longer but not so wide as tenth. Prothoraa: 

 about as wide as long (3| mm.), widest in front of middle, much 

 wider at apex than at base, anterior angles little produced and 

 bluntly rounded, sides rather widely rounded and narrowed, with- 

 out sinuation, at base; obtuse posterior angles not at all produced, 

 base widely angulate, not coarctate, margins narrowly channelled 

 wathin, foveate near the middle, narrowly raised at extreme 

 border, subobsolete at base and apex; disc with medial line 

 impressed throughout, \\ idciiing into an elongate fovea near base, 



with a fovea on each side 

 near posterioi' angles. »S'cvt- 

 tellum shield-shaped and 

 punctate. Elytra rather 

 more than twice as lonst" 

 as prothorax, and of the 

 same width at their widest; 

 shoulders very oblique, 

 with epipleural fold visible 

 from above throughout the 

 whole length, sides gently 

 i-ounded and tapering to 

 apex; with six stria; on 

 each elytron, intervals nar- 

 row and convex, the fourth 

 rather wider than the rest, sides and epipleura- quite smooth, as 

 also the sternum and abdomen. Front and hind tibiae curved 

 on the inner edge (not bowed inwards), strongly enlarged into a 

 wide lobe at apex, and lined on this inside edge with minute 

 granules and a fringe of tomentum, the wide flange at apex of 

 front tibife similarly clothed with red tomentum, that of the hind 

 tibiie l)eing hollowed and minutely granulose, fore tibiae armed 



Otrintiis Fergjisovi, ii.sp. , ^ 

 a.Fore tibia. — 6. Hind tibia. 



