Genus 93. — BRACHYCERU8. 63; 



bus validis, basi medio sub-angulato-productiis, ante medium le- 

 viter ampliatus minime vero anguiatus ve! dentatus, siipra lateri- 

 busqiie temere scrobiculatus, huctuberciilis aliquot obtnsis interjec- 

 tis, dorso coeterum sub-a?qualiter elevatus, nee, ut in Brachycero 

 stellnri, antice intriisus, canalicula tantiim vadosa lonyitiulinali , 

 sub-laevi, notatus; totus niger, squamositate in scrobiculis dorsi ci- 

 nerea, in canalicula lateribusque marpaiitacea , vestitus. Elyfra 

 ovato-sub-globosa , medio thorace fere duplo latiora, basi conjunc- 

 lim leviter emarginala , apice sub-retusa, supra snb-striatim scro- 

 biculata in tergo reticulato-rugosa , seriebus quatuor c tuberculis 

 sub-conicis, circiter decem in singula serie, posterioribus extimis- 

 qiie bumilioribus, plurimis apice setulosis, spinaque solitaria, sub- 

 humeiali, piasdita; tota nigra, squaniLisitate in tergo cinerea, ad 

 latera posticeque margaritacea, vestita, verrucis in interstitiis extev- 

 nis granulisque ad suturam sparsis, nee non tuberculis dorsalibus 

 apice plagialini , denudatis, nigris. Corpus subtus et pedes nigra, 

 raargaritaceo-squamosa, setulis nigris passim adspersa; tibiis anti- 

 cis apice exlns valide lobatis, intus uni-spinosis; tarsis elongatis, li- 

 nearibus. — Fhs. 



* 43. B. Apicatus. Clievrolal. 



Ovatiis, nr'ger, dense cinereo-pulverulenhts , disperse nigro-setosus ; 

 lostro scrobicnlalo, basi triangulariler acinninato; thorace late.ribus 

 in angulam multi-tuberculalum antpliato, supra coiifvrlini tubercu- 

 lato, in medio sulco irregulari, carinulam includente impresso; ely- 

 tris scrubicnlatis, reticulafim rugosis, tabercalo siib-humerali solila- 

 rio aids(jne diiplici serie in singido instructis , interioribns apice 

 fasci^Uitim setosis. 



Brachycerus Steüaris. Huj. op. I. p. 424- 64- Diagnosis et obser- 

 vatio ibi adhibitae, ad baue speciejn perlinent. 



Vau. ß, triplo minor et ultra, in elytris pra^sertira angustior ; forte 

 mas. 



Brachycerus cirriferus. Dom. Chevrolat in Litteris. 



Patria : (Jap. Bona; Spei. .\ Dom. Chevuolat nominatus et e\ 

 ejus Musa^o descriptus. A Dom. Dhigk etiam communicatus. Mus. 

 ScHH. 



Brachycero biijlol)ato aut magnitudine a'qualis, aut panlo ma- 



