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Verv siihilar in form and general appeavance to A. hellicüsns 

 Oerst. The antennae are aboiit half as long again as the hoad 

 and ihorax, the latter is nearly square (if the front angles are 

 taken into the leugth); these angles are produced but broadly 

 i-()ini(l tho niargins, widel}- but not stronglj retlexed, the sides 

 in sonu^ are nearly parallel, but in one narrow to the base. 

 The basal Hulci are short, united by a distinct submarginal 

 impressed line, the basal angles are nearh* right angles, a little acute. 



The elytra are subopaque, eovered with large stellate 

 [>unelur<'s, which are in series near the suture, the space betwcen 

 being flnely aciculate, the large punctui-es eover the large 

 jtvraniidal elevation, which is placed a little before the middle; 

 Ihe liumerus is carinate, a Httle elevated; immediately behind 

 ilie carina is a red tubercule, rising from a dull blood-red ol)liqiie 

 spot. In the exam2)le I think to be a male, this tubercule is 

 much more raised and forms a mucro; there is a red spot near 

 the seutellum, precisely as in A. mvcvonatus and before llie 

 apex a transverse one, looking as if formed of t^ o irregulär 

 s])ots united transversely. The apex is not mucronate in eilhcr 

 of the specimens, and the large punctures are not distinct in 

 the male?, but this is perhaps owing to their being obscured by 

 somc accretion. The breast, femora and abdomen are shining, 

 Ihe basal segment of the latter being strongly even coarsely, 

 punctured in the middle. 



A. Komeratus is rather closely allied to A. mncronatua 

 Herst. The presence of a red tubercule in place of the 

 subhumeral spine and the form of the cultriform middle 

 elevation, especially of the h>pothetical male; in this example 

 it is nnuli eompressed at its apex in the longitudinal direction, 

 and hooks baekwards, but is not sharj); the anterior subhumeral 

 )-ed jdmple is prolonged in a mucrolike way; the apex of tlie 

 elytra is in no way mucronate nor truncate. 



There are four examples, three being apj)arenl]y females, 

 one of which is immature and therefore brown. 



Stett. entomol. Zeit. 1901. 



