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asperatis, apicibus latis, rotundatis, flavescentibus, extremis albidis; abdomine 

 longe exserto, lato, obtuso, apice leviter tridentato ; pedibus brevibus, robu 

 flavis, femoribns obscoratis ; antennis brevibus atque palpis nigris. 



rather .short and broad, black, shining, clothed with short fulvous hair. 



Head large and broad, ornamented with minute remote tubercles in nearly Btraight 

 row-, interstices reticulated and shining; eyes large, rather prominent; 

 anti 'it, pitchy black; palpi black. 



Thorax large, longer and much broader than the head, widest before the base, very 

 convex, very closely reticulate or alutaceous, ornamented with minute remote 

 tubercles in distant wavy rows, sides rounded and broadly margined, basal 

 margin slightly sinuated, with the angles much produced, very broad, and 

 rounded ou the outer side in the shape of the bill of the Puffin, Fratt rcula 

 arctica. 



Scutellum large, deeply asperated in transverse rows. 



Ehitra short, slightly attenuated posteriorly, as long as the head and thorax, but 

 narrower, moderately asperated in remote transverse rows, sides slightly 

 rounded, extremities broad, rounded, flavescent, with the edge white. 



Abdomen much exserted, broad, obtuse, slightly tridentate at the apex. 



Legs short, robust, yellow, with the femora dusky. 



Under parti wholly black. 



Differs from i. //< nrici in it- more convex and narrower form, yellow legs, and in 

 sculpture ; and from all others in the peculiar dilatation of the posterior angles 

 of the thorax. 



Habitat, Europe. Found by myself in Leicestershire. 



Trichopteryx angustipennis. 



T. angustipennis, Matthews, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 132, 1884; Biol. 

 Cent.-Amer. Col. ii. pt. i. p. 139, 1888. 



L. c. T R 5 lin. = 1 mm. — Suboblonga, thoracis lateribus valde dilatatis, nitida, 

 valde convexa, piceo-nigra, pilis flavis vestita; capite magno, oculis magnis, band 

 prominentibns , pronoto magno, ad latera valde dflatato, props medium latissimo, 

 tuberculis magnis, ordinibus irregularibus dispositis, inti rstitiisque glabris nitidis 

 ornato, lateribus valde rotundatis et fortiter marginatis, margine basali depressa, 

 Binuata et reflexa, angulis flavis, acutis, vix productis; elytris fuscis, sat brevibus, 

 capite atque pronoto baud longioribus, multo angustioribus, prope media latissimis, 

 ordinibus transversis sat profunde asperatis, apicibus parum contractis et parum 

 rotundatis, extremis albidis; abdomine longius exserto, obtuso; pedibus atque 

 antennis flavis. 



Body suboblong, with the sides of the thorax largely dilated, shining, very convex, 

 nigro-piceous, clothed with yellow hair. 



very large, moderately tuberculate, shining; eyes large, not prominent; 

 antenna long and slender, yellow, with the apex dusky. 



Thorax rather large, wider and much longer than the head, dilated at the sides, 

 widest near the middle, ornamented with rather large tubercles in irregular 

 rows, with the interstices smooth and shining, much depressed towards the 

 base, sides strongly margined, with the margin yellow, basal margin sinuated 

 and reflexed, with the angles acute, scarcely produced, yellow. 

 Hum large, triangular, rugosely asperate. 



Elytra rufous brown, short, not longer but much narrower than the head and thorax, 

 widest near the middle, rather contracted towards the apex, moderately 

 asperate in transverse rows, with the interstices shining, extremities broad, 

 not much rounded, with the edge white. 



