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the thigh ; hind tibiffi very deeply scooped inwardly from 

 base to apex, the outer edge is very sharply angular near 

 the knee, and the inner one emits a curved tooth slightly 

 above the apex, which is not mucronateon either side, an 

 apical spur hetuht!'. 



Prothorax with a sub-denuded band on each side of the 

 median furrow ; elytra densely scaly, the scales forming 

 three bands; hind femora triangular, trochanters spinose 

 at a short distance from the apex but having a tooth 

 above it ; hind tibire very curved, mucronate inwardly at 

 apex, an apical spur hrtn.*. 



Prothorax and elytra covered with closely set whitish 

 scales, forming no bands on the elytra ; point of the 

 trochanters forming the apex of the triangular hind 

 femora, which are simple; hind tibiae very curved, 

 mucronate inwardly at apex, an apical spur litipiosus. 



B". Trochanters of hind femora non-spinose. 



C=. Elytra non-costate. 



Black, with the elytra sienna-brown and sprinkled with 

 white scales, prothorax with a median supra-marginal 

 and a marginal band of white scales ; hind femora 

 simple ; hind tibia; carinate underneath, the carina 

 angular near the knee and ending in a short mucro at 

 apex, no apical spur jJiiltiiuitii.t. 



C. Elytra bi-costate on each side. 



Black, with the prothorax and elytra covered with elon- 

 gate, ashy scales not closely set, hind legs moderately 

 robust, simple ; clypeus slightly rounded laterally, hind 

 claws simple funeLris. 



Black, completely covered with greyish- white and 

 brownish scales, the latter forming four bands on the 

 prothorax and two on the elytra ; hind legs very slender 

 and long, claw of intermediate legs cleft f/raci/is. 



MONOCHELUS GLABERBIMUS, Builll., 



Plate XLII., fig. 53. 



Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 155. 



Male : Black, very shining, and having on the prothorax a narrow 

 lateral band of white scales, and a basal one partly obliterated except 

 in the middle, while in the median longitudinal groove are a few white 

 hairs ; the scutellum is clothed with elongated white scales, and in the 

 central part of the elytra, close to the suture, there is a patch of 

 similar scales and a rudimentary longitudinal band of the same 

 beginning at the base but scarcely reaching to the median part ; pro- 

 pygidium and apical margin of the abdominal segments fringed with 



