1866.] 275 



processes very short, in a line with the underside of the eyes 

 Face triangular, central lobe broad, longish, convex, produced 

 beyond the clypeua ; side lobes short, somewhat triangular, and 

 slightly rounded outwardly. Antenna shorter than the body 

 1st joint cylindrical, a little longer than the head, its entire length 

 reaching beyond the end of the face ; 2nd 2\ times longer than 

 the first, in the ^ stoutish, almost cylindrical, in the ? slightly 

 clavate ; 3rd and 4th filiform, together shorter than the 2nd ; 4th 

 I of the 3rd. JEyes \QYy prominent, projecting considerably beyond 

 the anterior margin of the pronotum ; viewed from above hemi- 

 spheric, from the side oval. Rostrum short, reaching to the end 

 of the mesosternum. 

 TliorcuK — Pronotum trapeziform, 1§ time as broad on the posterior 

 margin as long ; anterior margin in the ^J almost straight, and 

 with a raised collar ; behind the latter a transverse depressed 

 space bounded posteriorly by a deep curved channel, its extremi- 

 ties terminating a little within the anterior angles ; in the $ the 

 collar is flat ; sides straight ; posterior margin in the ^ straight 

 across the scutellum, rounded towards and at the hinder angles ; 

 disk convex, very much deflected to the head from in a line with 

 the base of the elytra ; in the ? the posterior margin is slightly 

 concave across the scutellum, and somewhat raised ; disk hori- 

 zontal, almost flat as far as the channel. Scutellum triangular, 

 equilateral, convex, raised above the clavus, with a transverse 

 channel in front, the anterior portion concealed beneath the pos- 

 terior margin of the pronotum. Elytra in the ^ longer than the 

 abdomen, in the $ undeveloped, without cuneus or membrane ; 

 Clavus convex, deflected to the corium ; Corium in the $ almost 

 flat, anterior margin slightly reflexed ; in the ? elevated towards 

 the apex of the clavus ; Ctmeus long, triangidar. JOeffs thin ; 

 thigJis of almost equal thickness, somewhat cylindrical ; tarsi, 3rd 

 pair, 1st and 2nd joints of almost equal length ; 2nd shortest. 



Figure 3 (c? & ? ) Ent. Ann. 1866. 



Species — Bothtnotits Minei, Eieb. 



BoTHTXOTTJS MiNKi, Fieh. "Wiener Entomol. Monatschrift, viii. 77, 

 Taf. 2, fig. 7 (1864). 



(^ Shining, pitchy black, or with a faint greenish-brown tinge ; 

 clothed with fine, erect, pale yellowish hairs. Legs red. 



