BY 11. J. CARTER. 



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ApASIS BEPLEGENOIDES, 11. sp. (Text-fig. 8). 



Elongate-ovate, upper surface dark copper-bronze, very nitid; 

 beneath darker; antennae, palpi, and tarsi piceous-red, tibia? and 

 tarsi clothed beneath with light red hair. 



Head somewhat triagonal and strongly protruding from thorax, 

 labrum prominent and punctulate, epistomal ridge prominent, 

 , with front edge concave, sides oblique, forehead 

 squarely depressed, limited in front and on sides by 

 well marked sutures, and behind b}'- indistinct horse- 

 shoe impression, coarsely punctulate. Eyes small, 

 oblique, coarsely faceted, with hollow impression 

 behind the eyes, neck finely punctured; antennae 

 stout and long, in both sexes extending beyond 

 the base of prothorax, longer in male, third joint 

 about equal to fourth and fifth combined, eleventh 

 longer than tenth and acuminate. Prothorax in 

 9 as wide as long, in $ rather longer than wide, 

 ti;uncate at base and apex; convex, without lateral 

 foliation, sides regularly rounded, widest at middle, 

 at apex a little wider than head; anterior angles 

 ^is- ^' obtuse and unseen from above, posterior angles 



widely obtuse and only indicated by slight enlargement 

 of border in that region; border very narrow throughout 

 and a little raised; central channel well marked; disc with 



two large fovsse near base, two 



large 



foveate impressions 



towards the sides, and several large scattered setiferous 

 punctures, tlie whole minutely punctured. Scutellum raised, 

 triangular and punctulate. Elytra rather narrowlj^ ovate in ^J, 

 widely in 9, shoulders obsolete; regularly striate-sulcate, with six 

 stride on the upper surface of each elytron and two more on the 

 sides; intervals equal, slightly convex and apparently quite smooth 

 except for a few small setpe near the base and sides, each bearing 

 a long, thin, upright hair; epipleur^e quite smooth, abdomen 

 smooth and shiny, prosternum a little transversely strigose; 

 metasternum and femora with scattered hairs; intermediate 

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