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A ft. Elytra blackisli-brown, with suture and 

 side margin red-brown, shorter than thorax. 



Head blackish ; thorax and abdomen blackish or dark 

 brown ; base of antennae and legs yellow, apex or former 

 red-brown. L. 2| 1. Common. Q. maurorufus, Gr. 



JS b. Elytra pitchy, with margins and a 

 large shoulder spot red-brown, as long as 

 thorax. 



Head, thorax and abdomen pitch-black or pitch-brown, 

 latter with margins of segments and apex lighter ; base of 

 antennae and legs red-yellow, apex of femora red-brown. 

 L._2| 1. Not uncommon. Q. siituralis, Kies. 



2? li. Third joint of antennae not much, or 

 scarcely longer than second. 



a, a, Scutellum punctured. 



A a. Length 3 — 3| lines. 



Pitch-black ; antennae and legs red-yellow. Head with 

 one impression near inner margin of each eye and two im- 

 pressions behind it ; elytra and abdomen closely and finely 

 punctured. Eather common. Q. rufipcs, Gr. 



B b. Length 2f lines. 



A 1, Thorax brassy-black or black; an- 

 tennae red-yellow, 



a 1. Elytra brassy-red, with pubescence 

 more or less reddish ; abdomen with 

 four longitudinal interrupted bands of 

 ashy pubescence. 



Black, shiny ; head and thorax brassy -black, former with 

 four frontal impressions ; elytra brassy-red ; margins of 

 abdominal segments and legs red, posterior femora dark ; 

 antennae and palpi red-yellow. Common. 



Q. semiaeneus, Steph. 



b 1. Elytra dark bronze-green with 

 dusky pubescence ; abdomen without 

 longitudinal stripes. 



Elongate. Head, thorax and abdomen black ; antennae 

 and legs red-yellow. Punctuation close and fine. Not 

 uncommon. Q. attenuatus, Gyll. 



