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Bed minutisHime pum-tsito, iuter.stitiis minute alutnceis, marp;ine basali profunde 

 sinuatu, anj,'ulis lonj^e prodiictis, atfiitisHimis ; eli/trin pronoto parum aiif^ustioribus, 

 sesqui lonHioiibus, ad humeruK latissimis, postice valde atteiiuatis, modiee et remote 

 ordinibus transversis asperatis, iuterstitiis profunde alutaccis, stria suturali ad 

 mediam profunda, pieeis, apices versus plus minusve late rutis, lateribus leviter 

 niarginatis, ai)i(;ibu8 vix rotundatis ; pygidio rutis ; pedibus atqiie anteuuis modicis, 

 tlavis. 



Body subconic, attenuated posteriorlj', very convex, rather shining, rather thickly 

 covered with golden hair, piceous, with the extremities of the elytra more or 

 less broadly rufous. 



Head small, yellow ; eyes moderate ; antenuje moderate, yellow. 



Thorax moderate, circularly rounded in front, very minutely but regularly punctured, 

 with the interstices minutely alutaceous, basal margin deeplj' sinuated, with 

 the angles much produced and very acute. 



Scntellitm rather large, subtriangular. 



Klfltni rather narrower and one-half longer than the thorax, widest at the shoulders, 

 much attenuated posteriorly, moderately and remotely asperated in transverse 

 rows, with the interstices deeply alutaceous and the sutural stria dee[) towards 

 the middle, piceous at the shoulders, and more or less broadly rufous towards 

 the extremities, sides slightly margined, extremities slightly rounded. 



Abdomen with the pygidium exposed and rufous. 



Le(ig moderate, yellow. 



Under part !i castaneous, with the edges of the ventral segments rufous. 



Differs from ijoth the foregoing species in its smaller size, much narrower form, less 

 dilated thorax, and rufesceut extremities of the elytra. 



Tlahitiit, Europe. Found in Italy by Prof. A. Fiori. 



Anisomeristes castaneus. 



(Sericoderus) castaneus, Reitter, Mitth. Miinch. Ent. Ver. i. p. 126, 1877. 



L. c. j"i; lin. = 1 mm. — Ovatus, angustus, nitidulus, valde convexus, rufo- 

 castaneus, pilis Havis vestitus ; pronoto sat parvo, antice ovaliter rotundato, 

 indistinctissime punctato, fere glabro, lateribus leviter marginatis, margine basali 

 profunde sinuata, angulis aeutis, longe productis ; eli/tris pronoto baud latioribus, 

 sesqui longioribus, prope humeros latissimis, postice attenuatis, profunde remote et 

 rcticulatim asperatis, interstitiis alutaceis, stria suturali modiee impressa, lateribus 

 marginatis, ajiicibus vix rotundatis ; pygidio pallido ; pedibus atijue antennis 

 roliustis, Iffite tlavis. 



liody ovate, narrow, verj' convex, rather shining, rufo-castaneous, clothed with 



yellow hair. 

 Head dusky ; eyes moderate ; antenna; bright yellow, very robust, with the eighth 



joint as large as the seventh. 

 Tliora.r rather small, ovally rounded in front, very indistinctly punctured, almost 



smooth, sides slightly margined, basal margin deeply sinuated, with the angles 



acute and iiuicli produced. 

 Scittellinn very Buiall, triangular. 

 Eli/tra not broader but one-half longer than the thorax, widest near the shoulders, 



posteriorly attenuated, deeply, remotely and reticulately asperate, with the 



interstices alutaceous, sutural stria moderate, sides margined, extremities 



scarcely rounded. 

 Abdomen with the pygidium exposed and pale yellow. 

 Leffs robust, bright yellow. 

 Under parts ferruginous, alutaceous, apical segments of the venter yellow. 



