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 most often strongly glistening, either naked or extremely sparsely haired. 

 The head short, in most of the species roundly transverse, with large pro- 

 truding eyes, posteriorly strongly narrowing, only on the sides with rather 

 coarse punctation, in some species not broader than long, with less pro- 

 truding eyes and behind these feebly narrowing. Temples and genae finely 

 margined; antennae rather short, their third jojnt much finer and shorter 

 than the second, the fourth small, the middle and next-last joints (5-10) 

 most often of equal breadth and strongly transverse, more rarely as long 

 as broad, distal joint oval. Of the mouth-parts the maxillary palpi are short, 

 their fourth joint small and spiculiform, hardly as long as the third; 

 labial palpi t'Ao- jointed, the tongue small and most often undivided at tip, 

 only in subg. Agaric ochara is the tongue cleft. 



Pronotum short, most often tv^ice as broad as long, broader than the head, 

 but narrower than the elylra, with rounded sides, rounded fore- and hind- 

 corners and arcuate posterior margin, the sides very finely, posterior mar- 

 gin jiost often more distinctly margirated, dorsum slightly convex, in most 

 of the species with t\*o longitudin&l rows of larger punctures, and other- 

 wheres either smooth or v>ith only simple punctation, in several species 

 with uniformly fine punctation , without punctate rows. Elytra longer than 

 pronotum, with protruding humeri and rather evenly truncated posterior mar- 

 gin, inside the outer corners not incurved; abdomen ordinarily short, dor- 



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sal side rather flat, robustly margined, its first three free dorsal joints 

 depressed at base, ventral side convey; in running end at rest it is often 



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