484 M. JACOBY 



tures, elytra with a deep basal depression, strongly punctate- 

 striate at the base, more finely so below the middle. 



Length 4 millim. 



Head impunctate, with nar.row oblique grooves above the eyes 

 which meet at the front, clypeus depressed, smooth, its anterior 

 edge straight, the middle with an acute ridge extending upwards 

 to the lateral grooves, eyes large and oval, antennae long and 

 slender, the lower four or five and the apical three joints fia- 

 vous, the others black ; thorax nearly twice as broad as long, 

 convex, the sides straight, the anterior angles oblique, the basal 

 lobe broadly rounded and produced, the disc with a few very 

 fine punctures, irregularly distributed, the base with a trans- 

 verse row of deeper punctures, elytra with a deep basal depres- 

 sion below the shoulders, regularly punctate-striate, the punctu- 

 res stronger anteriorly than at the posterior portion, under side 

 and legs purplish. 



Ighibirei. 



Larger than X. Loriue and distinguished from that species and 

 from X. alternata Baly by the coloration of the antennae and the 

 basal elytral depression, the latter and the absence of elytral 

 costse separates the species from X brevicornis Jac. 



19. Sutrea ti-ipla^iata, sp. n. 



Piceous or black, the last joint of the antennae flavous, thorax 

 impunctate, the anterior angles obscure fulvous, elytra flavous, 

 a transverse band at the base, an elongate spot below the 

 middle, the apex and the posterior portion of the suture black. 



Length 5-7 millim. 



Head black, with a single deep puncture in front of the eyes, 

 frontal elevations very narrowly oblique, carina linear, apex of 

 the last joint of the palpi, flavous, antennae extending to the 

 middle of the elytra, black, the apical joint flavous, third joint 

 shorter than the fourth, thorax twice as broad as long, the 

 sides nearly straight, the angles obtuse, the posterior ones obli- 

 que, the surface rather convex, black, impunctate, the anterior 



