336 



the latter very transverse, elytra extremely feeblj punctured in 

 indistinct rows. 



var. Tlie liead partly and the thorax entirely flavous. 



Length 3 mill. 



Head impunetate, black, eyes very large, frontal elev^ations 

 absent, antennae closelj approached at the base, long and slender, 

 the lower six or seven joints flavous, the others black, basal 

 Joint long and slender, second, very short, third and following 

 joints nearly equal; thorax about twice and a half broader than 

 long, the sides straight, obliquelj narrowed anteriorl}', the anterior 

 angles slightly thickened, the surface entirely impunetate, black, 

 scutellum broadly triangulär, elytra very convex, narrowed 

 posteriorly, the apex of each nearly truncate, the punctuation 

 onlj' \'isible when seen under a very strong lens and arranged 

 in indistinct rows, their epipleurae narrowed but visible below 

 the middle, below black, the legs flavous, the tibiae infuscate, 

 the posterior ones, furnished with a very long spine, the meta- 

 tarsus of the bind legs but little shorter than the tibiae, anterior 

 coxal cavities closed. 



The very convex shape and tlie black colour of this species 

 will distinguish it from any of its congeners; allhough the elytral 

 epipleurae are continucd below the middle, they are very narrt)w 

 as is the case with many other sptcies of the genus in conse- 

 quence of which Candezea with continued epipleurae can scarcely 

 be retained as a genus; of the variety I possess a Single example 

 from the same localily -which does not differ structurall}" in 

 anv wav. 



Stött. entomol. Zuit. 1903. 



