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along the outer margin ; the tarsi (except the testaceous 

 basal half of the claw-joint) pitchy. 



Head strongly and rather densely punctured ; on the 

 narrowed front-portion the punctures are much finer. 



Prothorax subtrapezoidal , the sides nearly straight , 

 faintly constricted a little before the base, and crenulate; 

 the anterior angles very broadly rounded , not at all pro- 

 minent, the posterior ones acute and divergent; the front- 

 margin straight, the base bisinuate, the median lobe 

 narrowly rounded. The disk is somewhat irregularly covered 

 with very large and deep punctures which are closer set 

 towards the sides ; in front of the scutellum an impuuctate 

 streak is present. The impuuctate scutellum is small and 

 strongly transverse. 



Elytra very elongate , slightly narrowing towards the 

 end and here separately rounded in an angular way. Each 

 elytron with ten regular striae of punctures which become 

 larger towards the sides; the S^d and 9*^ interstices are 

 strongly costate ou the apical portion and join the margin. 



Under surface of the head with a few distinct punctures 

 on the middle, strongly punctured on the sides, the throat 

 impuuctate ; the metallic lateral portions of the prosternum 

 deeply but not very densely punctured ; the legs apparently 

 impuuctate, the metallic coloured portions, however, with 

 a few distinct punctures; the anterior tibiae straight; the 

 tarsi very slender and elongate. 



A single female specimen which is in the possession of 

 Mr. René Oberthür. 



Leyden Museum, October 1891. 



^otes from the Leyden IMuseura, "Vol. XJII. 



