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Fage 12(5. — Add, after Homotyphus squalidus, 

 5 a. Homotyphus cionoides. 



II. ovatus, rohustus, latus, incequalis, tuberculatum ; pube nigra et 

 fused et sparsim rufo-fulva subtiliter vestitus, nigro-fuscus ; 

 aqnte brevi ; thorace transverso, bituberculato, ad latera rugoso ; 

 scutello flavo ; elytris latis, pwnctatis, rugosis, ad basin bituber- 

 culatis, ni;/rix, ad latera et apicem fusco-Jlavis, vittis duabus 

 transversis irregidariter nigrisj antennis robustis, filiformibus, 

 ad apicem subdilatatis ; pedibus robustis, flavo-fuscis, nigra 

 maculatis. 



Long. corp. 2 lin., lat. l^ lift. 



Ovate, broad, robust, irregularly and deeply sculptured, clothed 

 throughout with a fine pubescence ; in colour fuscous black. Head 

 short, slightly produced in front ; between the eyes the sculpturing 

 is distinctly different from that of all other species of the group ; the 

 surface is transversely depressed, giving prominence to a transverse 

 ridge immediately above the base of the antenna) ; the surface is 

 clothed throughout with fine pubescence, which is in colour black, — 

 a medial longitudinal line, and the inner margins of the eyes, being 

 flavous ; the eyes are lateral, and situated nearly at the base of the 

 head, in form oval. Thorax transverse, rectangular ; the sides are 

 marginate and slightly compressed in front; the whole surface is 

 occupied by irregular and well-defined excavations and ridges ; near 

 the anterior margin are two contiguous and prominent tubercular 

 elevations — on either side of these, and at the base, the surface is 

 depressed, and yet corrugated with irregular ridges ; the surface is 

 clothed throughout with pubescence, rufo-fuscous suffused with 

 fuscous, — the anterior tubercular elevations being more glabrous, and 

 in colour' distinctly rufous. Scutellwm large, distinct, situated in the 

 same plane as the elytra, in form subcordiform, and clothed with a 

 dense pubescence of pale flavous colour. Elytra broad, short, robust, 

 irregidarly sculptured, deeply but sparingly punctate ; the surface is, 

 antemedially, slightly and broadly depressed, which gives a degree 

 of prominence to the region near the scutellary angles, and also to 

 two postmedial gibbous elevations ; the whole surface is clothed with 

 close and short pubescence, which (when viewed obliquely) is pro- 

 duced occasionally into irregular and rugged tufts of hair ; the colour 

 is, near the humeral angles, around the scutellum, and near the su- 

 ture, black or fuscous black (the apex of the humeral angles itself 

 being rufous) ; the sides are broadly flavo-fuscous (suffused occa- 

 sionally with rufous), two irregular transverse markings from the 

 margination towards the suture being fuscous black ; the apex itself 



