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until measured looks quite as long as wide. The suture is not 

 cariuiforai behind. 



Victoria. 



POLYPHRADES LAMINATUS, sp.nOV. 



Ovalis ; niger vel fusco-niger vel obscure ferrugineus squamis 

 concoloribus et setis brevissiniis suberectis vestitus, et 

 squamis pallidis vel aureis irroratus; rostro quam caput parum 

 longiori (sub squamas leviter 3-carinato), lamina apicali 

 maxima apicem totum ultra antennarum basin tegenti ; 

 oculis elongato-ovalibus minus subtiliter (quam P. nitidila- 

 bris, Germ, fere magis f ortiter) granulatis ; antennis robustis 

 modice elongatis, scapo oculum medium paullo superanti, 

 funiculi articulo basali quam 2"^ paullo longiori et crassiori ; 

 prothorace quam elytra sat angustiori, antice modice angus- 

 tato, quam longiori plus quam tertia parte latiori, crebre 

 obscure tuberculato-ruguloso (tuberculis planatis subocellatis), 

 lateribus sat arcuatis ; scutello punctiformi ; elytris ovalibus, 

 striatis, striis sat fortiter subcancellato-punctulatis, inter- 

 stitiis planatis, basi vix marginata hand reflexa, quam 

 prothoracis basis vix latiori, sutura postice baud carinata. 



^. Tarsorum anticorum unguiculis fere normalibus, ceterorum 

 valde insequalibus. 



9. Unguiculis omnibus inasqualibus j elytris paullo magis late 

 ovalibus. [Long. 2^-3i, lat. 1-1 f lines. 



This remarkable species may be at once known by its peculiar 

 claws [those of the front tarsi being very little different from the 

 ordinary Folyphrades type (especially in the male), while on the 

 intermediate tarsi one of the claws is very considerably shorter 

 than the other, and on the hind tarsi one claw is still more 

 diminished in proportion to the other] and by the great size of the 

 apical plate on the rostrum, which occupies the whole surface from 

 the level of the base of the antennae and extends hindvvard, more 

 or less narrowing from that point, its front apex being emar- 

 ginate. 



