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tubercles, which are slightly curved backward at the apex. 

 Beyond these it is defined by a slight ridge which speads out 

 over the front in the shape of about two faint lines on each 

 side and gradually vanishes. The elytra are thickly and 

 finely punctate somewhat compressed behind the shoulders, 

 each side having tubercles as follows : a small subsutural, 

 the median subbasal above mentioned, which is easily the 

 largest of all, blunt and obtuse, a line of five or six obliquely 

 from the humerus to the suture back of the middle, the api- 

 cal above mentioned, which next to the basal is the most 

 prominent, and about four other small ones scattered about 

 between the oblique line and the apex ; all of the tubercles 

 of this line except the top one are rufous-purple, as are also 

 some of the small ones at the rear, some of the punctures 

 also are here and there purpled, pygidium very coarsely 

 punctate, arranged in transverse lines, obsoletely carinate at 

 bottom, sides of abdomen with a large swollen tubercle, 

 body beneath coarsely reticulate. 

 I place this form near kernies Lac. 



Chlaniys aiireopilosa nov. sp. Opaque black, head and ante- 

 rior part of the thorax evidently, and remainder of the body above, 

 sparingly clothed with short recumbent golden hairs, becoming sparse 

 at apex ; antennae, mouth parts and legs flavous with hind femora 

 darker; thoracic hump very moderate (like inconspicua Jac); median 

 sulcus nearly entire ; elytra with sutural and median lines plain and 

 transversely connected at the middle ; suture finely dentate ; pros- 

 ternum gradually narrowed to an obtuse point, exposed part of body 

 beneath dull, very closely and coarsely punctate with very close ap- 

 pressed yellow hairs, obsolete at the rear; length 3 mm. 



Type.— 6^ (?); one example, " Mexique " (2 Jac. Coll.). 



Much smaller and not as stout as the Brazillian stygia Lac, 

 but with the yellow pubescence much more evident ; as on 

 the front of the thorax it is visible to the naked eye, 2d joint 

 of the antennae is very stout, obconic and trigonate, 3d 

 quite as stout but still obconic, trigonate, though closely ap- 

 proaching in size and appearance the remainder, which are 

 dilated transverse, the punctuation of the thorax is largely 

 obscured by the pubescence, but the tip and rear of the 



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