SYNONYMS. 



Cychrus bilobus. Noh. Trans. Amcr, Phil. 



Soc. (new series) vol. ii. p. 73. 

 Sph^roderus bilobus. Dejean, Spec. Ghi. 



Coleopt, vol. ii. p. 16. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body beneath black : head black, w^ith a slight 

 violaceous tint : antennse and palpi pale piceous : 

 thorax cupreous-violaceous, polished, broadest 

 rather before the middle, much narrowed be- 

 hind; lateral margin not dilated nor reflected; 

 base depressed and much punctured ; basal lines 

 obsolete ; basal edge rectilinear, not wider than 

 the pedicle of the postpectus; disk somewhat 

 bilobated, being convex each side, and gradually 

 indented in the middle by the dorsal line; 

 anterior margin depressed, and rugose in the 

 middle: elytra cupreous-violaceous, striae nume- 

 rous, punctured : pectus beneath, postpectus and 

 abdomen each side, punctured. 



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