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mentis abdorainis apice testaceo-marginatis. Pedes nigri, re- 

 mote pmictulati, parce pubescentes. 



13. spectanda: rotundata, convexa, nigro-aenea, parum nitida; 

 femoribus anticis basi sanguineis; prothorace dorso subti- 

 lissime, remote punctulato, utrinque foveolato, postice te- 

 nuiter canaliculato, antice leviter carinato, lateribus obli- 

 que ampliato; elytris sanguineis, rude, sat crebre punctatis, 

 calio suprahumerali vittaque dorsali, inaequali, sub-elevata, 

 sutura, limbo, maculis tribus in disco exteriore fasciisque 

 duabus angustis, marginalibus, aeneis. — Long. 13, lat. 

 12 millim. 



Patria: A Dom. Deyrolle ad describendum missa. 



D. Dromedario proxima, minor, elytris pone basin minus 

 alte gibbosis, vitta dorsali, irregulari, sub-elevata, aenea, 

 nitida notatis, fasciis marginalibus usque ad limbum excurren- 

 tibus ab iila distincta. Caput nigro-aeneum, sub-nitidum, 

 rugoso-punctatum, inter oculos canaliculatum, utrinque macula 

 parva, sanguinea notatum. Oculi ovati, convexi, nigro-brunnei. 

 Antennae basi aeneae, nitidae, obscure ferrugineae, articulis 

 quinque ultimis nigris, pubescentibus. Prothorax latitudine 

 postica plus duplo brevior, antice truncatus, lateribus basin 

 versus oblique ampliatus, postice utrinque profunde bi-sinuatus, 

 lobo raedio triangulariter producto, apice obtuso, angulis re- 

 trorsum prominulis, acutis; superne paullo convexus, aeneus, 

 sub-opacus, subtilissime, remote punctulatus, medio canalicula 

 tenui, postice abbreviata, antice in carinulam laevem conti- 

 nuata instructus, ante scutellum transversim leviter impressus, 

 utrinque in medio dorsi obsolete foveolatus; Hmbo laterali 

 elevato, nitido. Scutellura parvura, sub-laeve, aeneura, opacum. 

 Elytra antice singulatim sinuata, prothorace triplo longiora, 

 ad basin valde rotundato-ampliata, a medio sensim angustata, 

 apice conjunctim late rotundata, superne convexa, sat profunde, 

 crebre rugoso-punctata, antice retusa, singulatim impressa, 

 dorso antioo quam in D. Dromedario rainus elevata, obtuse 

 gibbosa, sangiiinea, sub-opaca, sutura, limbo exteriore, vitta 

 longitudinali, dorsali, irregulari, elevata, a callo suprahumerali 

 exeunte, antrorsura ducta, dein non procul a sutura continuata, 

 ante apicem desinente, maculis duabus disci exterioris, una 



