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side lobes. Antenna ; 1st 3 joints with fine, long, projecting Lairs, 

 the 4th with short appressed hairs ; the 1st nearly cylindrical, about 

 ^rd of its length projecting beyond the end of the face ; the 2nd and 

 3rd slightly clavate, the 2nd 2^ times as long as the 1st, the 3rd f tha 

 the length of the 2nd ; the 4th long-fusiform, as long as the 2nd, 

 base with a short petiole, ^i/es large, prominent behind. Ocelli 

 distant. Host mm reaching the middle of the mesosternum. 



Thorax. — Pronotum short, trapeziform ; anterior margin nearly 

 straight ; side margins very narrow, scarcely reflexed ; hinder angles 

 obtuse, slightly thickened ; posterior margin in the middle slightly 

 concave or bisinuate, at the ends produced over the base of the 

 elytra ; disk slightly convex, flatter posteriorly. Scutellum large, 

 longer than broad, triangular, slightly convex. Elytra ; CJamis de- 

 flected to the corium, with 3 straight rows of contiguous distinct 

 punctures, and sometimes other irregularly disposed punctures 

 between the inner and the next row. Corium; anterior margin 

 narrow, reflexed, 1st 3rd nearly straight, last 3rd curved in- 

 wardly ; disk slightly convex, on the inner side with punctures 

 disposed in rows, outwardly more irregularly punctured ; posterior 

 margin nearly straight ; Memhrane with 5 nerves, the 1st 3 curved 

 inwards, posteriorly divergent, the other 2, arising near to each other 

 near the inner basal angle, curving outward, then inward, and then 

 slightly divergent. Sternum ; Mesosternum in front compressed into 

 a short middle keel ; from the middle to the end of the xyphus flat. 

 Legs: thighs; 1st pair thick, short-fusiform, beneath with a broad 

 flat channel, of which the inner and sometimes the outer edge is 

 dentate; tibia-; 1st pair curved, widened inwardly at the apex, un- 

 armed, except 1 or 2 apical spines ; 2ud and 3rd pairs more or less 

 spinose ; tarsi long ; 1st joint of the 1st and 2nd pairs not so long as 

 the 2nd and 3rd together, on the third pair much longer ; the 2nd 

 on all the tarsi very short. 



Abdomen very convex beneath, depressed at the base. 



iSpecies 1. — Trapezonotus distinctus. 



Trapezonotus distixctus (Fied.), Bo^ig. and Scott, Eut. Aun. p. 145, 



fig. 4 (1863). 



Long-oval, black, dull ; 3rd joint of antennas, with a broad red ring; 

 posterior portion of pronoticm, and the elytra, lutescent ; the 

 latter with rows of confluent black punctures. 



