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pressed line along the margin and round the anterior angles, which 

 together with the anterior margin are red ; elytra sparingly but 

 strongly and uniformly punctured ; the external margin, a spot 

 on the base just inside the callus, and a curved oblique mark 

 (reaching from ^ to A) orange red ; underside more or less red. 



Thorax with a deep epipleural fovea. 



L. 2 lin. Brazil (Deyrolle). 



Aulis plantaris. 



Aulis plantar is, Muls. Op. III. p. 135 (T). 



Convex, ovate, clothed with a short suberect pubescence, 

 black ; elytra with a punctiform red spot, at about J, near the 

 suture; tarsi reddish. L. 1^ lin. 



Punctuation uniform, subrugulose, inserted from behind (as in 

 Aleochara) ; elytra lepipleurse sinuate, but not foveolate; plates 

 subtriangular, subterminal ; claws very weak and simple. 



Cape of Good Hope (Deyrolle). 



Aulis notivestis. 



Aulis notivestis, Muls. Op. III. p. 136 (T). 



Hardly convex, oblong-ovate, thickly clothed with an erect 

 pubescence, black ; thorax brown at the sides ; elytra each with 

 an orange vitta, nearly parallel to the suture, not reaching base 

 or apex ; legs yellowish red. Thorax without any epipleural fovea, 

 claws rather long, simple, epipleura? acuminate at -g ; punctuation 

 unequal, sparse, the large punctures a little in lines. Clypeus 

 certainly not emarginate. L. lj lin. N. India (Deyrolle). 



Cyrtaulis, gen. nov. 



Evidently allied to Aulis; the eyes (coarsely granulate) are 

 slightly bordered in front by the gense ; the antennae have the 

 basal joint dilated and are short ; the thoracic epipleurre have a 

 broad deep fovea, elytral epipleural broad, dilated at the shoulder, 

 lightly foveolate ; claws dentate at the base ; abdominal plates 

 semicircular, complete, or slightly effaced in the posterior *> 



Cyrtaulis puberula, sp. n. 



Very convex, uniform dark red, with a short golden pu- 

 bescence, punctuation sparse, unequal, the coarse punctures much 

 stronger and thicker along the margin ; thorax rather sparingly 

 punctured, with a raised margin at the sides and anterior angles. 

 L. 3| lin. Madagascar (Deyrolle). 



Dioria. 



Muls. Spec, p. 936 {typ. sordida). 

 Thorax very slightly emarginate in front, sides with a faint 



