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briefly margined and rounded at the apex , hardly emar- 

 giuate near the suture ; deeply sulcato-scrobiculate , the 

 furrows are broad, the impressions rounded or transverse, 

 not scaled, the longitudinal interstices are raised, narrow, 

 finely waved, scaled, three of them are prominent, like 

 tubercles , at the base. Anterior coxae separated. Legs short 

 and robust , thighs briefly toothed , tibiae broad , compressed , 

 the anterior ones angularly enlarged near the middle, 

 tarsi short, broad, with the last joint conspicuously com- 

 pressed. Prosternum and mesosternum roughly punctured 

 above, metasternum at the sides , the latter furrowed in the 

 middle ; the base of the abdomen is broadly sub-excavated. 



Apterorrhinus com press it arsus, n. sp. 



(ƒ . Fuscus , opacus , furfure lurido-cinereo et ochraceo- 

 fuligineo tectus ; rostri parte antica (apice excepto), collo , 

 pedibus , elytrorumque sulcis plus minusve rubro-brunneis ; 

 rostri apice et sutura nigris. Capite supra et infra prui- 

 noso, in medio fortiter-, lateribus supra oculos leviter sul- 

 cato, angulis posticis prominentibus, tuberculiformibus , 

 oculis mediocribus, subglobosis; rostro basi similiter vestito, 

 medio sulcato , regione inter antennas rotundato-ampliata, 

 parte antica in dimidio apicali nuda , nitida , antice emar- 

 ginata; antennis brevioribus quam rostro et capite unitis, 

 robustis , vix citra medium rostri insertis , articulis funiculi 

 pruinosis, breviter rareque pilosis, apicalibus majoribus, 

 10° et 1 1° squamositate carentibus. Prothorace capitis cum 

 rostro circiter longitudine , antice subtruncato , apicem ver- 

 sus utrinque strangulate , deinde recurvato-ampliato basi 

 sulco transverso angusto exarato margineque crasso munito ; 

 supra depresso, regulariter profundeque sulcato, lateribus 

 scrobiculato sublutoso , sulco et scrobiculis griseo-pruinosis, 

 disco squamulis punctiformibus scabriusculo. Elytris dimi- 

 dio circiter prothoracis lougioribus , illius latitudini basin 

 versus aequalibus, postice leviter attenuatis, basi emargi- 

 natis, singulo elytro 3-tuberculato ; dorso subdepressis , 

 r^otes from the Hieyden Musetun, Vol. XVII. 



