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prunoto maguo, antice circulariter rotumlato, llavescenti, lovissime alutaceo, minute 

 et indistiiicte punctato, linea basali profunda, raaigine anteriori moilice refiexa, 

 margine basali profuiide siuuatii, angulis paruiu productis, acutissimis ; cli/tris 

 brevibus, pronoto vix hitioribus, aliquantum longioribus, prope media latissimis, 

 minute et remote punctatis, interstitiis levissime alutaceis, rufescentibiis, ad bumeros 

 infuscatis, lateribus leviter marginalia, apicibus obtusis, rotundatis ; pvgidio exserto, 

 rufescenti, profunde alutaceo ; pedibus longis, hete tiavis, tibiis anterioribus ad 

 apices fortiter incurvatis ; antennis valde robustis, la;te flavis. 



Body ovate, very convex and very shining, faintly alutaceous and minutely 



punctured, brigbt rufo-castaneous, witb the shoulders of the elytra infuscate. 

 Jletid yellow ; eyes large and prominent ; antenns very robust, bright yellow. 

 Thorax large, circularly rounded in front, Havescent, faintly alutaceous, minutely 



and indistinctly punctured, basal line rather deep, anterior margin moderately 



reliexed, basal margin deeply sinuated, with the angles slightly produced and 



very acute. 

 Srutelliim broad and rounded. 

 KUltra short, scarcely Inoader, but somewhat longer than the thorax, widest near 



the middle, minutely and remotely punctured, interstices very faintly alutaceous, 



rufescent, with the shoulders dusky, sides slightly margined, extremities obtuse 



and i-ounded. 

 Abdomen with the pygidium cxserted, rufescent, and deeply alutaceous. 

 Li'fis long, bright yellow, with the apex of the anterior tibia; abruptly incurved. 

 I'luhr parts castaueous, with the iirothorax yellow and the last ventral segment 



pale, metasternum faintly alutaceous, first ventral segment with a deep 



longitudinal dejjression in the middle. 

 Differs from C Cassidoides in its ovate form, greater convexity, much smaller 



thorax, lighter colour, and general sculpture. 

 llahitat, Europe. Generallj' distributed. 



Corylophus Reitteri. 



C. Beitteri, Matthews, Wien. Ent. Zeit. ix. p. 151, 1890. 



L. c. /'g lin. = "75 mm. — Subhemisphericus, fere ovatus, convexissimus, et 

 nitidissimus, hete castaneus, lateribus elj'trorum infuscatis; pronnto sat magno, 

 antice circulariter rotundato, minute alutaceo, margine anteriori baud reflexa, 

 margine basali leviter sinuata, angulis acutis, parum productis ; clj/tris pronoto 

 parum latioribus, plus quam sesqui longioribus, prope media latissimis, apices 

 versus parum attenuatis, minute et remote punctatis, interstitiis alutaceis ; pedibus 

 atque antennis robustis, laete flavis. 



Bodi/ subhemispheric, almost ovate, exceedingly convex, and very shining, bright 



castaneous, with the sides of the elytra dusky. 

 Head yellow ; eyes moderate ; antenme robust, bright yellow, with the seventh joint 



much enlarged and the eighth very small 

 Thorax rather large, circularly rounded in front, minutely alutaceous, anterior 



margin not retlexed, basal margin faintly sinuated, with the angles acute and 



slightly produced. 

 Scutelliim rather large, rounded. 

 Klytrit rather broader, and more than one-half longer than the thorax, widest near 



the middle, slightly attenuated towards the apex, minutely and remotely 



punctured, with the interstices alutaceous. 

 Legs robust, bright yellow. 

 Under parta alutaceous, castaneous, with the mouth yellow and the last segments of 



the venter rufous. 



