222 UBANIUS. 



apici subangulatim ampliato , antice subrotundato et in 

 medio eraarginato. Mandibulae parvae. Antennarum arti- 

 culi mediani subobconici, sequentes subcylindrici. Protho- 

 rax elongatus , autice attenuatus , deinde gradatim rotun- 

 dato-ampliatus , supra coovexus, laevis. Elytra elongata, 

 lateribus parallelis, tertio apicali angustata, apici truncata; 

 juxta suturam profunde unistriata, externe striato-punctu- 

 lata , tertio apicali et prope marginem lateralem punctulato- 

 striata. Pedes validi, femoribus anterioribus medium versus 

 fortiter- medianis et posticis prope apicem levius dentatis , 

 tibiis anticis curvatis, pone medium longe dentatis, tibiis 

 intermediis et posticis inermibus ; tarsis brevibus. 



Body elongate as in Episphales Kirsch but more robust 

 and well distinguished from this genus by the head being 

 transverse and auriculate, whilst in Episphales it is longer 

 than broad , narrower anteriorly than at the base which 

 is simply emarginate. The basal portion of the rostrum in 

 Ubanius is longer than in Episphales , the apical portion 

 is differently enlarged at the tip ; the prothorax is more 

 elongate and broader at the apex; the sculpture of the 

 elytra is as in some Rhaphidorrhynchus (f. i. R. longimanus 

 Lund), but they are not spinous at the external angles of 

 the apex ; the legs are more robust than in Episphales , 

 with the anterior thighs spinous towards the middle, the 

 tibiae distinctly curved and strongly spinous in the apical 

 third; the tarsi are also shorter. 



From Phymechus Senna, the genus Ubanius differs by 

 the body being more elongate, by the head being not ru- 

 gose and differently auriculate, by the rostrum being not 

 scabrous and not toothed at the margins of the anterior 

 portion , by the elytra which are more elongate and diffe- 

 rently sculptured; the anterior thighs are also not curved 

 and spinous towards the middle. 



Ubanius aeneus, n. sp. 



(ƒ. Elongatus, robustus, aeneus vel niger, nitidus , ely- 

 tris ferrugineo-lineatis ; capite impunctato , pone oculos , 



Notes from the Leyden Museum , "Vol, XVI. 



