322 Genus 229. — LEPTOPS. 



baseos brevior, apice lato et profunde emarginatus, pone oculos 

 lobatus, intra lobos constrictus, lateribus dein rectis, parallelis ; 

 basi evidenter bi-sinuatus, in niedio produetus; supra modice 

 eunvexus, rude rugosus, niger, squamis cinereo-albidis sat dense 

 obsitus, tomento rariore fusco-griseo iniinixto; dorso antice Fovea 

 rotunda, evidentiore aliaque iritfa basin sub-transversa, minus 

 profunda, impresso, in medio carinula longitudinali, obsoleta, 

 notato. Scutelluin parvuni, sub-triangulare, elevatum, nigrurri, 

 dense albido-squamosum. Elytra antice singulatim rotundato- 

 produeta, tboracis basi paulo latiora, pone basin abrupte amplia- 

 ta , humeris oblique in tuberculum extensis; versus apicem atte- 

 nuata, margine laterali inflexo, mox pone basin breviter iterum- 

 que in medio late sinuato; apice ipso conjunetim sub-acuminata, 

 thorace quadruplo longiora; supra circa scutelluin conjunetim 

 depressa, dorso posterius sub-gibbosa, evidenter striata, in striis 

 remote et profunde punctata, interstitio seeundo a sutura basi 

 elevatiore, quarto in callu postico desinente; tota nigra, squamo- 

 sitale cinereo-albida obteeta, tomento fusco-umbrino in ipso 

 apice densius, alibi parce adspersa. Corpus subtus nigrum, sub- 

 coriaceum, squamis fusco-cincreis, in pectore anoque magis 

 condensatis vestitum. Pedes longiusculi, nigri, dense cinereo- 

 squamosi, pube rariore, albida, adspersi, feinoribus sub-simpli- 

 eibus, vix clavatis, tibiis teretibus, anticis apice nonnibil ineur- 

 vis, tarsis dilatatis, subtus griseo-spongiosis. — Fhs. 

 An femina Leptopis squalidi'.' 



* 3. L. Squalious. Schh. • — Hiij. op. II. p. 3oo. 4- 



Palria : Nova Hollandia. 



4. L. Crexatus. Schh- 



Obtonyo-ovatus, niger, squamulis süaeeis ctdspetSUS, rostro quadri- 

 sulcatö, medio carinato ; thorace rude rugoso, dorso cruciuliiii im- 

 presso, carinula media abbreviata instrueto; efytris remole purum 

 profunde punetalo-striatis , sutura interstitiisque alternis dorsalibus 

 tuber cltlatis. 



Patria : Nova Hollandia. E Museo Acad. Imp. Alexaudrino 

 descriptus. 



Leptopi tubereuktto via longior, sed in elytris multo latior. Caput 

 breve, crassum, supra convexum, nigrum, opacum, obsolete punc- 

 tulatum, squamulis silaeeis parce adspersum, inter oculos foveola 



