r )3i Genus 1G9. — LAPAROCEKUS. 



L. morioni valde affinis, sed multo minor, ütiorhyncho cribncolli 

 magaitudine sequalis. Caput inediocrc , rufo-piceum , obsolete 

 punctulatum ; honte plana, canalicula abbreviata, sat profunda 

 impressa, subtiliter striolato-rugosa; oculi parvi, oblongo-ovati , 

 prominuli, nigri; rostrum capite vix longius, sed illo nonniliil 

 angustius, crassnm, rectum, rufo-ferrugineum, longitudmaliler 

 subtiliter striolato-rugosum , basi per strigam an iiai.im. transvcr- 

 sam, obsoletam, a fronte distinctum, apice profunde triangulariter 

 emarginatum. Antennae longitudine dimidii corporis, tenues, tes- 

 taceae, parce pilosoe, clava elongata, acuminata. Thorax latitudine 

 medii nonniliil longior, basi apiccque truncatus, anlcrius angus- 

 tior, lateribus modice rolundato-ampliatus, angulis posticis minus 

 rotundatis, supra parum convexus, piceus, nitidus, undique sub-ti- 

 lissimc alutaeeus, dorso remote lateribus sat crebre parum profunde 

 punctatus, dorso anlico obsoletissimo carinato. Scutellum triangu- 

 läre, piceurn, pube albida dense obsitum. Elytra antice tboracis 

 basi paulo latiora, humeris rotundatis, mox pone basin ampliata, 

 a medio versus apicem attenuata, tborace quadruplo longiora, 

 apice ipso sub-rotundata, supra prsesertim in dorso parum con- 

 vexa, picea nitida, apicem versus pube depressa, albida, adspersa, 

 subtiliter regulariter, punctato-striata, interstitiis planis, subiilis- 

 sime alutaceis. Corpus subtus rufo-piceum, obsolete punctatum. 

 Pedes mediocres, dilutius rufo-picei ; femoribus clavatis, muticis; 

 tibiis anticis apice paruin incurvatis, vix crenulatis; tarsis sublu* 

 fulvo-spongiosis. — Bhn. 



Genus 170. AOMUS. Nobis. 



Character generis. — Antennae longae, minustenues; scapus clava- 

 tus, thoracem attingens; articuli duo basales fuuiculi longiusculi, 

 ob-conici, reliqui breviores, turbinati; clava oblonga, ovalis. 



Rostrum longitudine fere capitis et illo angustius, lineare, basi 

 sub-constrictum, apice leviter triangulariter emarginatum; scrob» 

 oblonga, latiuscula, nonniliil curvata. 



Oculi rotundati, modice convexi. 



Thorax basi apiceque truncatus, lateribus rotundatus, anteriui 

 paulo angustior. 



Scutellum trianguläre, parvum. 



Elytra oblongo-ovata, basi truncata, a tborace distantia, supra 

 convexa. 



I>< uiijitio. Co/y>u.soblon;;o-ovatum, convexum. sub-pubescens, 

 alatum; minoris magnitudinis. — Antennce tboracis basin superan- 

 tes, minus tenues, versus apicem rostri inserta?, fracta», 12-articu- 



