214 PSEUDOCOPHORA UNIPLAGIATA. 



Pseudocophora uniplagiata , n. sp. 



Oblong-ovate ; below black ; above and the anterior legs 

 fulvous ; thorax deeply transversely sulcate ; elytra semi- 

 punctate-striate with a sutural rounded piceous spot below 

 the base. — Length 3 lines. 



cf. Elytra deeply excavated below the scutellum, the 

 excavation limited in front by 2 strongly raised tu- 

 bercles. 



Head impunctate, deeply transversely grooved between 

 the eyes; frontal tubercles transverse, trigonate; carina 

 acute; antennae half the length of the body, testaceous, 

 second joint short , third joint one half longer than the 

 fourth , this and the following ones equal ; thorax twice 

 as broad as long, the sides rounded and widened before 

 the middle , from there to the base straight ; anterior angles 

 thickened and very slightly produced outwards , surface 

 with a deep transverse sulcation immediately below the 

 middle, extending across the entire disk, the latter im- 

 punctate with the exception of a few fine punctures near 

 the anterior angles; scutellum trigonate, impunctate, fla- 

 vous; elytra slightly widened towards the apex, with nu- 

 merous irregular double rows of fine punctures which get 

 nearly obsolete near the apex ; immediately below the scu- 

 tellum a large rounded black or piceous spot is placed 

 across the suture, in front of which a deep excavation, 

 bounded at each elytron by a conical fulvous tubercle, is 

 seen in the male; elytral epipleurae continued below the 

 middle; underside and legs (with the exception of the an- 

 terior ones) black , shining ; claws bifid. 



The present genus was founded by myself (Notes from 

 the Leyd. Mus. VI. p. 69) on a species formerly included 

 in Aulacophora, from which it must be separated on account 

 of the prolonged elytral epipleurae ; the species here de- 

 scribed agrees in every particular with the type except in 

 the coloration; in the allied species the elytra are reddish 

 fulvous , their anterior half and lateral margin being black ; 



^otes from tlie ÜLieyden Museum , "Vol. VI. 



