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permagnis, clavam valde incrassatam, subfoliatam formantibu.s, apice oblique 



truncato. 

 Palpi ma.dllares (PL VII., A, fig. 5, w) breves, robusti, 4-articulati ; 1 exiguo; '2 



pevmagno, ovato ; 8 parvo, perbrevi, transverse ; 4 tertio multum latiori, 



elongate, snbconico, pilis toto instructo, apice leviter incurvato. 

 Paljn lahicdes (PI. VII., A, fig. 6, m) magni, robusti, triarticulati ; 1 exiguo ; 2 per- 



magno, subcylindrico, leviter incurvato, antice abrupte truncato, in margine 



extrema calcaribus iirmato, et membrana concavatii operto, e qua media 



articulus tertius exoritur esiguus, acicularis, et fere omnino occultus. 

 Labium (PI. VII., A, fig. 3) sat magnum, semiovale, basim versus constrictum. 

 ^[nndihuUe (PI. VII., A, fig. 4) validse, apicem versus dilatatiP, fortiter unciunatiie 



et ad extremam bifida, ad basim processu magno instructfe, cujus acies interna 



ovaliter truncata est, truneationis marginibus profunde serratis. 

 Maxilke (PI. VII., A, fig. 51 parvfe, unilobatfe, lobo sat magno, sinuato, modice 



incurvato, et dentibus longis, acutissimis ad apicem armato. Stipes parvus, 



externe productus. 

 Moituin (PI. VII., A, fig. 0, j) parvum, breve, transversum, subquadratum, lateribus 



leviter rotuudatis. 

 Lahinm (PI. VII., A, fig. G, k) parvum, oblongum, paraglossis permagnis, subconicis 



terminatum. 

 Liiujiia (PI. VII., A, fig. 6, 1) magna, lata, pone palpos et paraglossas ferme occulta. 

 Pronotiim modicum, transversum, antice ad caput accipiendum modice excisum. 

 Scutellinu parvum, vel triangulare, vel rotundatum. 

 Elytra Integra. 

 Ake amplse. 



Abdomen segmentis septem (?) compositum, apicali solo corneo, reliquis coriaceis. 

 Caput subtus ore deflexo, parte gulari sat magna, convexa. 

 Prothorax prosterno (PI. VII., A, fig. 2, a) parvo, inter coxas elevato, et antice parum 



producto ; epistcrnis exiguis ; epime.rh raodicis, receptacula coxarum postice 



includentibus ; coxarum receptaculis subovalibus, non contingentibus. 

 Pectus mcsostcrno (PI. VII., A, fig. 2, d) brevi, antice profunde concavato; episteniis 



maguis ; epinieris angustis, humeralibus, ad coxarum receptacula fere extensis ; 



coxarum receptaculis ovalibus, sat remotis. 

 metasterno (PI. VII., A, fig. 2, g) magno, ad latera corporis non extenso, margine 



posteriori inter coxas recta ; episteniis permagnis, latis, ad coxas extensis ; 



epimeris longis angustis, apicibus ad coxas inflexis, reliquis sub elytris occultis. 

 Venter segmentis sex compositus ; 1 magno, longo ; 2-5 multo brevioribus, inter 



sese paribus ; 6 prtecedenti duplo longiori, integro. 

 Pedes antiei coxis longis, ovatis ; trochanteribus parvis, ovatis; femoribus simplici- 



bus; tibiis sffipe pnelongis, plus minusve incurvatis, apicibus obtuse unciunatis; 



tarsis sat longis, 4-articulatis ; 1 et 2 fere paribus, subtus valde elongatis ; 



3 exiguo ; 4 tenui, valde elongate ; unguibus longis, leviter curvatis, ad bases 



incrassatis. 

 intermedii coxis ovalibus, sat remotis ; tibiis simplicibus, non elongatis, alioqui 



anticis similes. 

 postici coxis sat magnis, subovalibus, longius remotis, alioqui intermediis similes. 



Body either oval or ovate, generally very convex and shining, smooth, or sparingly 

 clothed with minute hairs. 



Head parth' exserted beyond the thorax. 



Antennm (PL VII., A, fig. 7) geniculate, nine-jointed; 1 very large, pyriform, slightly 

 recurved ; 2 rather smaller than the first, pyriform ; 3 and 4 small, nearly 

 transverse; 5 large, sometimes much incrassated ; 6 small, transverse; 7-9 

 very large, forming a much incrassated subfoliate club, with the apex obliquely 

 truncate. 



