116 TYPHOCESIS FLOCCOSA. 



2. Typhocesisfloccosa, v. cl. Poll. 



cf . Brunnea , omnino tomento holosericeo obtecta. Caput in 

 medio longitudinaliter valde sulcatum, vertice sparse puncta- 

 tum , argenteo-pilosum ; antennae nigrae , articulis 3 — 6 ad 

 basin, 7 et S parte majore alhis; articuli 3 — 6 articulis 7 — 11 

 multo validiores et intus dense nigro-ciliati. Prothorax supra 

 deplanatus , laterihus in medio f ere parallelis apicem versus 

 valde rotundato-angustaiis , post medium fortiter arcu emar- 

 ginatis , base paene recta , in disco dense subtiliterque rugo- 

 sus; argenteo-pilosus , densius in lateribus. Elytra ad basin 

 recta , humeris rotundatis , sat parallela , ad apicem separa- 

 tim rotundata; pubescentia densa griseo-brunnea tecta, Jloccis 

 numerosis minutis argenteis intermixta. Pars infera pedesque 

 pubescentia argentea obsita , epidermidis tamen colore brunneo 

 internitente. 



Length 16 mm., breadth at the shoulders ö^/g mm., length 

 of the antennae 27 mm. 



Derm brown , all over covered with a velvety shining 

 tomentum. The head is clothed with a thin silvery pubes- 

 cence, in the middle deeply grooved in a longitudinal 

 direction and deeply punctured on the vertex; the anten- 

 nae are black with the base of the 3'''' — 6*^ joint and the 

 greater basal half of the 7*^ and S^^ joint covered with short 

 white hairs, the 3'''^ — 6*^ joints are very strong and provi- 

 ded at the innerside with a dense fringe of long black hairs, 

 whilst the three terminal joints are also, though very thinly , 

 fringed. 



The prothorax is covered above with a rather thin sil- 

 very pile, which becomes however very close along the 

 sides; the base is nearly straight, the sides are almost pa- 

 rallel in the middle, strongly narrowed and rounded towards 

 the top and deeply emarginated below the middle, the 

 disk is flattened , finely and densely rugose. 



The scutellum is concealed by a silvery tuft. 



The elytra are straight at the base, rounded at the 

 shoulders, parallelsided, and separately rounded at the apex, 



Pfotes from the Ley den muHeiim, Vol. LX. 



