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piceo-niger, vix bronzeo-^micans ; labro et clypei lateribus, rufes- 

 centibus ; palpis antennis pedibiisque testaceis vel rufis ; sutiira 

 clypeali et protlioracis margine antico pilis erectis fimbriatis ; 

 corpore subtus parce sat longe hirsuto ; labro cljpeum late 

 leviter superanti ; antennis 9-articnlatis ; unguiculis bifidis. 



[Long. 2i, lat, 1 line. 



The " trilobed outline " of the head is scarcely defined owing to 

 the anterior concavity of the clypeiis being filled by the labrum 

 so that from the most favourable point of view (very far back) the 

 outline appears as a continuous scarcely bisinuate curve, with the 

 middle lobe scarcely narrower than the lateral ones. The plane 

 of the clypeus is quite distinct from that of the rest of the head, 

 the clypeal suture being well marked and angulated. The 

 anterior concavity of the clypeus is very wide and very slight, 

 The prothorax is a little less than twice as wide as long, its base 

 rather less than half again as wide as its front, which (viewed 

 from above) is almost truncate with scarcely prominent angles ; 

 the sides are gently arched, but (viewed from above) appear 

 scarcely divergent from base to middle, there subangulated, thence 

 obliquely convergent ; the hind angles appear from above distinct 

 but obtuse, and the basal outline is gently convex all across. The 

 sculpture of the elytra resembles that in IT. potens, but the 

 puncturation is a little finer, deeper, and closer, and the lateral 

 costse are scarcely existent — those on the disc also being even 

 feebler than in potens. The hind coxae are quite as long as the 

 metasternum ; the puncturation of the latter being faint but not 

 fine, much closer at the sides than in the middle — of the former 

 almost obsolete except near the lateral margins where it is very 

 sparse and faint. The ventral segments are scarcely punctured 

 at all. the ventral series hardly distinguishable among the similar 

 long hairs scattered thinly over the ventral surface. The hind 

 femora are considerably wider than the intermediate (as in II. 



* This word (though not classical) seems necessary, as " SBneus " is con- 

 stantly used to express "brassy." 



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