.Sgo GtNLS 2G9. - IIOMALONOTÜS. 



Dionychus circumdatus. Gehm. Ins. Sp. I. p. 3i3. n° 45i. 

 SrcuM. Im. Catal. 189.6. p. i3i. 



Patria : Brasilia. 



* 8. fl. PoRosus. Schh. 



Oblongo-ovatns , nigcr,fere glaber, cap'ite pnnctato , tliorace tttbercvis 

 porißris versus latera adsperso, elytris foveolis profundis, seriatis 

 insciilptis, tnterstiti i's leviler tuberculatis. 



Uabitat in Brasilia. Dom. Fbeyreiss. Mus. Schii. 



Lonfyitutio Cleoni sulcirostris , sed latior, deplanatns. Caput 

 sub-globosum, nifjrum, pnnctis remotiusculis, setula cinerea 

 foeiis , in fronte majoribus, adspersuni ; vertirc subtiliter strifjoso ; 

 oculi laterales, ovati, nigri, parum proniiniili; rostrinn lonjjilu- 

 dine capitis cum thorace, crassiusculuni , arcuatnm, striatiim et 

 punctatum, nij^runi, {jlabrum. Antcnnae piceae, extrorsum fusco- 

 ferruginc;c , parre pilosas, clava pnliescentc. Thorax latitiidine 

 brevior, antice angiutior, apice tri-sinuatus, lobis ocularibus lon- 

 {jins productis, latcribns rotundato-ampliatiis, basi sat profunde 

 bi-sinualus, lobe medio lato, obtuse rotundalo; supra perparum 

 ronvexus, posterius in medio depressus, lateribus tuberculis cle- 

 vatis, poro pertusis, adspcrsus, in disro antico renio(e punctatus, 

 posterius fere lasvis; totus niger, [jiaber. Scuteilum scnii-ovale, 

 nijjrum, obsolete punctatum. Eiytra antice conjnnclim eniargi- 

 nata, tlioracis basi arcte applirata , illoque non latiora , liumerts 

 elevatis, rotundalis ; pone liumcros anipliata, dein versus apicem 

 attenuata,apice singulatim sub-acuniinata, thorace plus diiplo lon- 

 {jiora, supra in dorso longitudinalitcr dcplanata, foveis profundis, 

 remotis, serialis insculpta, seriebus per paria approximatis, inter- 

 stitils exlcrioribus elevatioribus, leviter tuberculalo-praiuilatis ; 

 nijjra, glabra. Corpus subtus ni{jrum, reniote subtiliter punctatum, 

 pectore densius, ventre parce cincreo-pilosis. Pedes robusti, ni{;ri, 

 punctati, parce cinereo-squamulosi ; lemoribus subtus in medio 

 denle obtiiso armatis; tarsis dilatatis, subtus denso flavescenti- 

 spongiosis. — Giil. 



g. II. CvAXicor,Lis (i). 



Oblougu?, nigricans, thorace cyaneo, hiteribus scabro , elytris st riatis, 



scabris. — F.\br. 



Rhynchcenus id. Fabr. Syst. El. II. p. 458. n" 100. 



[1) Forte hiiju' pcnfri« ; \\»\n i.irj.ii?. 



