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Palpi lahinles (PI. II., B, fig. 6, m) sat parvi, triarticulati, 1 exiguo ; 2 magno, 



tvirgide incrassato, leviter incurvato, pyriformi ; 3 minuto, aciculato. 

 Lahriun. (PI. 11. , B, fig. 3) sat magnum, subquadratum. 

 Mandihulce (PI. II., B, fig. 4) debiles, subquadratse, acie apieali profunde serrata. 



Stipes latus, subquadratus, deplanatus. 

 Maxilhe (PI. II., B, fig. 5) unilobatas, lobo valido, fortissime uncinnato, et dentibus 



duobus acutissimis apicem versus armato. Stipes parvus. 

 MettUcm (PL II., B, fig. 6, j) sat angustum, suboblongum, antiee rotunda dilatatum. 

 Labium (PI. II., B, fig. 6, k) breve, subquadratum, lateribus antiee rotundatis. 

 Lingua (PI. II., B, fig. 6, 1) sat magna, labio multum longior, antiee modice dilatata, 



margins apieali fere recta. 

 Pronotum parvum, breve, mai'gine anteriori integra, margine posteriori levissime 



sinuata, angulis obtusis. 

 ScutelliDii parvum, rotuudatum. 

 Elytra longa, fere integra. 

 Alte amplissimte, nervis solitis validis firmatae. 

 Abdomen segmeutis septem compositum, quatuor basalibus coriaceis, tribus 



apicalibus corneis, pygidio solo exserto. 

 Prothorax (PI. II., B, fig. 2, a) prosterno perparvo ; episternis incouspicuis ; epimeris 



parvis, receptacula coxarum partim eingeutibus ; receptaeulis coxarum modicis, 



elongato-ovalibus ; contingentibus, antiee et postice jmrtim apertis ; pronote 



lateribus longissime inflexis. 

 Pectus inesosterno (PI. II., B, fig. 2, d) brevissimo, antiee profunde excavate; episternis 



permaguis ; epimeris sat magnis, bumeralibus, a receptaeulis coxarum remotis ; 



receptaeulis coxarum magnis, cii'cularibus, inter se longe distantibus. 

 metasterno (PL II., B, fig. 2, g) magno, longo, a corporis lateribus longe remoto, 



margine posteriori inter eoxas recta ; einsternis permagnis, latis, ad coxas 



extensis ; epimeris longis, sub elytris totis occultis. 

 Venter segmentis sex eompositus, 1 permagno ; cseteris brevibus, sibiipsis paribus ; 



apieali integro. 

 Pedes antici (PL II., B, fig. p) troebanteribus modicis, ovalibus ; femoribus longis, 



robustis, simplicibus ; tibiis longis, simplicibus ; tarsis longis, 4-artieulatis, 1 



magno, oblongo ; 2 primo multum breviori, bifido, atque processu sat magno, 



ligoniformi, antiee instrueto ; 3 minuto ; 4 longo, sat robusto ; unguibus 



validis, abrupte curvatis et subtus fortiter dentatis. 

 intermedii anticis similes, sed longiores, tarsorum artieulis duobus basalibus 



profundissime bifidis. 

 postiei intermediis longiores, articulo seeundo tarsorum simpliei, alioqui similes. 

 Coxce anteriores sat parvffi, elongatae, eontingentes, atque prominentes. 

 intermedia magnae, eirculares, longe distantes. 

 postcriores modicse, elongatas, longissime remotne, ad episterna exteus£e. 



Body oval, ratber depressed. 



Head small, narrow, entirely covered by the pronotum ; eyes small, not prominent; 

 antennffi inserted in front of tbe eyes. 



yl?if(!Kn(e. (PL II., B, tig. 7) ten-jointed, 1 large, pyriform, recurved; 2 large, but 

 smaller tban tbe first ; 3 small, slender, twice longer than tbe fourth ; 4, .5, 6 

 short, subtriangular, equal to each other ; 7 twice longer than the sixth, 

 moderately incrassated, and closely joined to the eighth ; 8 large, much 

 iuerassated, obeonical ; 9 cyathiform, shorter than the eighth ; 10 largest of 

 all, ratber abruptly truncate at the apex ; the three last forming a subfoliate 

 club. 



Maxillary palp)i (PL II., B, fig. 5, w) rather short, exceedingly broad and flattened, 

 four-jointed, 1 minute ; 2 short, and very widelj^ cyathiform ; 3 subquadrate, 

 large and very broad ; 4 much the largest of all, very broadly cultriform, with 

 the inner edge nearly straight. 



