88 TEKEDILIA — UISSIDAE. 



very closely punctured. Head of male with two tubercles. 

 L. I 1. Not uncommon. C. ftcscatus, Mel. 



Ithopalodontus. 



A. Length f line. 



Oblong, convex. Pitch-black ; pubescence rather long 

 and thin. Thorax short, rounded at sides and angles, bor- 

 dered at base ; elytra punctured in wrinkles, with scattered 

 larger punctures. Moderately common. 



B. 'perforatus, Gyll, 

 jB. Length f — ^ line. 



Black or pitch-black, shiny ; antennae yellow-brown, 

 club blackish ; legs red-brown, femora sometimes darker ; 

 rather closely (especially on elytra) covered with very short, 

 upright bristles. Thorax much broader than long, very 

 finely bordered at sides and base, with angles rounded, base 

 tolerably straight, anterior margin somewhat pi'oduced, not 

 sinuate ; elytra as broad as thorax, scarcely half as long 

 again as broad. Forehead of male with two straight, little 

 horns in middle of front and a blunt tubercle above inser- 

 tion of antennae, that of female simple. Not uncommon. 



B. fronticornis, Lanz. 



Mnneartht'on, 



A, Body pitch-black or pitch-brown. 



Covered with stiff, upright, whitish hairs. Thorax ])i- 

 sinuate in front, anterior angles produced, tolerably rounded 

 at sides, narrowly bordered, very closely punctured ; elytra 

 more strongly punctured than thorax, pubescence mostly 

 in rows, especially close behind. Head of male with two 

 straight black horns in front, that of female simple. L. 1 1. 

 Kather common. iJ. a/fine, Gyll. 



H» Body reddish-brown or yellow-brown. 



Convex. Not very closely covered with very sliort, stiff 

 hairs ; punctuation fine and scattered, that of elytra rather 

 stronger. Front of forehead with two small black horns in 

 male, slightly raised in female ; front of thorax strongly 

 produced, in male dee])ly emarginate in middle (forming 

 two teeth), in female rounded. L. 1 1. Kather common. 



E. cornvAum, Cyll. 



