(38ü ÜENcs 93. — BRACHYCERÜS. 



Bracltjccro ythjiio longior, sed uoii latior; varial etiaiu dupio , 

 imo triplo minor. Caput majusculum, latuni, parum convexuiii , 

 profunde punctatum, nigrum, cinereo-squaniulosum , fronle ini- 

 pressa, sulco anyulalo a rostro disjunctum ; oculi laterales, ovati , 

 deprc'ssi, nigri, absque superriliis elevatis; rostrum capite parum 

 longius, valde crassum, basi triangularUer angustatum , extroi-sum 

 rotundalum, supra parum convexuni, rugosum et scrobiculatum , 

 interdum basi breviter carinatum et elevato-marjfinatum, nigrum, 

 cinereo-squamulosum. Antennae breviusculae, crassae, nigraj. Tho- 

 rax latitudine paulo brevior, antice posticeque angustior, apice bi- 

 sinuatus, lateribus in angulura obtusum, apice rotundatuni am- 

 pliatus, basi truncatus, supra valde inaequalis, rugis alte elevatis, 

 quasi anaglyptice exsculptis obsitus, sulco dorsali lato, iuaiquali, 

 in medio carinulam includente impressns, niger, cinereo etalbido 

 squamulosus. Elytra antice tlioracis basi nonlatiora, sed lateribus 

 valde ampliata, apice conjunctim rotinidata, thorace triplo lon- 

 giora, supra convexa, postice abrupte retusa, rugulosa et in disco 

 disperse, ad suluram sub-seriatim punctata, nigra, squamositate 

 densa cinereo-albida veslita; in singuli elytri disco series duaj e ver- 

 rucis remotis, sat alte elevatis, oblongis, transversim positis, supra 

 squamosis, margine elevato nigro cinctis, 6 vel 7, in singula serie 

 dorsali, pone quas, in apice elytrorum retuso, plures parvos ejus- 

 modi observantur; latera inflexa seriatim sub-tuberculata, inter- 

 jectis punctis squamositate alba, interdum argenteo-micante repletis. 

 Corpus subtus disperse punctatum, nigrum, antice albo-squamu- 

 losum, ventre piano, sub-nudo. Pedes longiusculi, nigri, rugulosi, 

 dense albido-vel sub-argenteo-squamulosi , nigro-irrorati. 



Var. ^, diflert elytris ante medium fascia inaequali, utrincpie 

 abbreviata, punctisque nonnullis disci argenteo-squamosis ornatis. 

 Caeterae varietates secundum diajinoses modo diversae.— (Jhl. 



iiü. b. Gemmifkuus. Gerniar. 



Sub-ovatits, atcr, thorace elytrisque dorso ocltraceo-squamonis , illo 

 incvcjuaU, rugis dnabus longitudinaUbiis , medio geniculatis , nigris , 

 idevuüoiif cenlrali p((Ujaqiie''jnagiia lUrimjur cinnabarinis ; his vcr- 

 rHcis\supra deplanatis ;\<^in}mb(irino-squatnOb'is , basi externe uigrii^, 

 tri-srrialii. 



