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in the middle ; the elytra show no traces of costse ; the hind coxse 

 are scarcely so long ; the metasternum is not granulate ; the 

 Isevigate space on the hind cox£e is much larger, the puncturation 

 of the under surface is less close throughout ; the lower two teeth 

 on the front tibiae are extremely sharp ; the basal joint of the 

 hind tarsi is but little shorter than the 2nd, and the hind claws 

 are feeble with the apical piece shorter and the basal piece 

 scarcely produced in a tooth at its apex. 

 Sedan, S.A. ; taken by Mr. B. S. Rothe. 



H. SUBFERRUGINEUS, Bumi. 



I feel some hesitation in this identification on account of the 

 following discrepancies: — Dr. Burmeister says t\\?it suhferrugineiis 

 is " aureopuhescens,''^ and speaks of the lateral fringe of the pro- 

 thorax as much shorter than that of the elytra, neither of which 

 characters do I notice in the specimens before me. The pubes- 

 cence is very silky as it should be, but is whitish and pruinose 

 rather than golden, and the lateral fringe is very uniform. In all 

 other respects, however, (including several notable characters) the 

 agreement is so satisfactory that I think it better to use the name. 

 The colour of the insect decidedly has an orange or golden tone 

 quite unusual in the genus, but it belongs to the derm, not the 

 pubescence. The following description will furnish some particu- 

 lars not mentioned by Dr. Burmeister. 



Yery strongly convex (more so than is usual in the genus), also 

 unusually elongate and at its widest very little behind the middle 

 of the elytra; the colour a pale orange or golden brown, the 

 head, prothorax and legs more reddish in some examples. The 

 surface is thinly clothed with short adpressed whitish-grey hairs, 

 and in some lights has a distinctly pruinose appearance. The 

 "trilobed outline" of the head is fairly defined, — the middle lobe 

 being, however, very evidently longer, and scarcely narrower, than 

 the lateral lobes. The front of the clypeus very feebly concave ; 

 its surface forms an almost perfectly even plane with that of the 

 rest of the head from which it is separated by an obscure suture 



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