Genus 471. — NERTUS. 79 



modice convexus , subtilitcr sub-remote punctulatus, nigro-pi- 

 ccus, nitidus, subtus niacula parva ante-scutellari aljio-vel sila- 

 cco-s(juaniosa. Scutellum sub-quadratum, Jtevc, ni.;;ro-pireiuii. 

 Elytra oblonga, conica, antice singulatim nonnibil rotundato- 

 producta, tenue reflexo-marf^inata, tboiacis basi vix latiora, bu- 

 meris obtusis, retusis ; latei'ibus pone bumeros apiccm vcrsvis 

 sensim angustata, apice ipso conjunctim acute rotundata, tbo- 

 race plus duplo longiora , supra in dorso parum convexa, tcnuiter 

 punctato-striata, interstitiis planis, lajvibus; nigro-picca , nilicia, 

 sutura niacuHsque duabus disci pone medium longitudinabler 

 locatis, albo squamosis. Corpus sul)tus subtibter punctulatum , 

 piceuni , nitidum, pectore lateribusque abdominis hite albo-vc! 

 silaceo-squamosis. Pedes longiusculi, sub-tenues, picei, sub-re- 

 niotc punctulati; femoribus vix clavatis, muticis, posticis supra 

 albo-squaniosis; tibiis teretibus, rectis, anticis intus in medio 

 obtuse dentaiisj tarsis valde dilatatis, svil)tus brunneo-spongiosis. 



Bhn. 



3. N. Geumari. (Schh.) — Eloncjntus, ntc'i% nitidus] fcmorilnis san- 

 guineis, roslro modice arcualo^ thorace angiisliori , conico, sithti- 

 lissime sub-rcmote punctnlato ; elylris lemdter pimckKo-strialis , 

 striis stituralibus apice profunde impressis , inicrsüdis planis , sid)- 

 kmibiis, corpore subüts remole puncUdato ^ laterilms abdominis 

 alho-sriiiamosis ; tibiis anticis intus miilicis. 



Patria • Brasilia. E Mus. Dom. Germak ad describcndum 

 missus. 



Statura fere Ncrti Mannerheimi, dimidio minor; femoribus san- 

 guineis a congeneribus mox distinctus. Caput rotundatum, con- 

 vexum, subtiliter minus crebre punctubitum, atrum, sub-niti- 

 dum, glabrum , inter oculos Icvitcr impressum; oculi laterales, 

 rotuncbati, sub-di^pressi , nigii; rostrum elytris brevius, tenue, 

 cyündricum, modice arcuatum, subtiüter minus crebre punctu- 

 latum , atrum, nitidum, glabrum. Antcnn;e sub-tenues, nigro- 

 piceae, parce piiosai, scapo fere ad oculos pertingente; clava ob- 

 longo-ovata, acuminata. Tborax oblongus, conicus, apice 

 truticatus, lateribus ultra medium obliquis , dein versus basin 

 sub-rectis ; postice Icvitcr bi-sinuatus, tenue marginatus, supra 

 modice convexus, subtiliter sub-remote punctulatus, atcr, niti- 

 dus, glaber. Scutellum medioere, sub-quadratum, punctulatum, 

 concolor. Elytra oblonga , sub-conica, antice singulatim nonnibil 

 rotundato-producta,reflexo-margiuata, bumcris obtuse rolunda- 



