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latius, apice late rotundatum, a fronte visum triangulare, 

 leviter transversum. a latere visum altitudine basali brevius, 

 vertice nonnibil convexo, immarginato, clypeo convexo, le- 

 vissime prominente, a fronte impressione leni discreto, hac 

 paullo infra planum scrobium antennarum posita, angulo 

 faciali obtuso, gula brevissima, perpendiculari, genis altis, 

 oculis mediocribus, fortiter prominulis, antennis paullo ante 

 marginem inferiorem oculorum insertis, articulo primo capiti 

 a tergo viso subaeque longo, apicem clypei paullum supe- 

 rante, secundo primo sesqui longiore, ambobus linearibus, 

 rostro coxas posticas longiuscule superante, articulo primo 

 crasso, medium mesosterni attingente. Pronotum paullo la- 

 tius quam longius, baud declive, coUari proprio destitutum, 

 sed parte ante callos sita a callis impressione discreta, depla- 

 nata, margine ejus apicali arcuato-sinuato, sed sinu angulos 

 apicales non attingente, callis convexis, transversim subovali- 

 bus, leviter distantibus, usque in latera extensis, medium 

 disci baud plene attingentibus, disco toto (callis exceptis) 

 crebre fortiter punctulato, marginibus lateralibus pronoti late 

 sinuatis, toto dimidio antico pronoti capite angustiore. Scu- 

 tellum parvum, transversum, transversim angulato-impressum. 

 Elytra apicem abdominis longe superantia, vix punctulata, 

 embolio angusto, lineari, cuneo plus duplo longiore quam 

 latiore, leviter declivi, incisura basali nulla, cellula mem- 

 branae triangulari, ultra apicem cunei baud vel vix extensa, 

 Coxae anticae medium mesosterni fere attingentes. Typus. 

 Eccritotarsus longulus Stål. 



I place tbis genus in Reuter's division Pycnoderaria 

 (Acta Soc. Se. Fenn. XXXVII, 3, p. 123). It bas possibly 

 some affinity to tbe insufficiently described genus Bibacnlus 



DiST. 



61. Stictoloplms longulus Stål. 



1860. Eccritotarsus longulus Stål, Vet. Ak. Handl. II, 7, p. 58. 



62. Bothrophorella nigra Stål. 



1860. Eccritotarsus niger Stål, Vet. Ak. Handl. II, 7, p. 58. 

 1893. Eccritotarsus procurrens Dist., Biol. Centr. Am., Het., 

 I, 442, tab. XXXVIII, fig. 18. 



