Genus 257. — PLINTHUS. 3 19 



postica paulo longior, apice sub-truncatus , anterius nonniliil an- 

 gustior, lateribus parum i-otundalo-ampliatus , liasi sub-bi-sinua- 

 tus, supia modice convexus, sat ci^ebre evidenter, anterius tarnen 

 subtiliter punctulatus, niger, nitidus, glaber. Scutellum minutum, 

 vix observandum. Elytra antice singu'.atim vix rotundata, tbo- 

 racis basi paulo latiora, pone humeros rotundatos nonniliil 

 ampliata, a medio apicem versus attenuata, apice ipso conjunc- 

 tim rotundata, tborace plus duplo longiora, supra convexa, pos- 

 tice declivia, late striata, fere sulcata, in sulcis punctis mag- 

 nis, profundis , sub-rerootis, impressa, interstitiis angustis, ele- 

 vatis , sub-costalis, la^vibus; nigra, nitida, glabia. Corpus subtus 

 obsolete crebre punctatum, nigrum, sub-opacum, glabruni. Pe- 

 des validi; femoribus modice clavatis, muticis, piceis; tibiis tar- 

 sisque ferrugineis. — Bhn. 



Genus 256. ADEXITJS. Nobis. 



Huj. op. II. p. 366. genus i4i- — I" diagnosi data lege : Ocult 

 ovati, depressi, parvi. 



*i. A. ScROBiPENNis. Schh. — Huj. op. II. p. 367. I. 



Germar. Fauna Ins. Eur. XX. Tab. 8. 

 Cryptorhynchus subterrancits.V)ora.YyA}iLin litteris. 

 Patria : Carinthi« et Helvetiae alpes, Carniolia. 



Genus 267. PLINTHUS. Germar. 



Cure. Dtsp. Meth. p. 173. genus 93. — Huj. op. II. p. 36o. ge- 

 nus i4o. — Steph. 5nf. £■«?. IV. p. io3. genus 3 12. Diagnosiu 

 huj. op. I. c. datam ulterius illustrare oportet. 



Antennae mediocres, minus tenues; articulis duobus basalibus 

 funiculi obconicis, reliquis brevibus, aut sub-rotundatis aut sub- 

 tui'binatis, etc. 



Thorax antice ulrinque leviter bi-sinuatus, pone oculos 



sub-lobatus, infra, etc. 



Elytra humeris in plerisque antrorsum plus minusve pro- 



minulis, in nonnullis sub-rotundatis supra, etc. 



Stirps I. — Corpus ovatutn. (Spec. i-i4-) 



Manipulus I. — Femara dentata. (Spec. i-i i. ) 



I. P. Gerlu. Parreyss, 



Ovaius, niger, squamulis dilule uinhrinis, cinereis mixtis (eclus, rostro 



