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A small species, distinguished by the broad, short-oval and strongly 

 convex form of the body, also by very short, broad, strongly glistening 

 pronotum and principally identified thereby. 



Black or pitch-brown, glistening, with rather sparse and long, somewhat 

 rough gray hair vestiture, along sides bristle-haired; antennal base, mouth- 

 parts and legs rust-red or brownish-yellow. 



The head is narrower than pronotum, strongly bent downward, posteriorly 

 only feebly narrowing, dorsally rather finely and densely punctated, with 

 rather large, somewhat protruding eyes and sharply marginated temples and 

 ^■enae; antennae rather short, smoothly thickened distally, their third 

 joint shorter and finer than the second, the fourth hardly longer than 

 broad, the next-last rather strongly transverse. Pronotum more than twice 

 as broad as long, very short, almost as broad as elytra, anteriorly narrow- 

 ing, with rounded sides and posterior margin, strongly and broadly convex, 

 with scattered and fine punctation, strongly glistening; the elytra scar- 

 cely longer than pronotum, broad, convex, rather finely and densely punc- 

 tated, their posterior margin inside the outer corners scarcely incurved; 

 abdomen short and broad, roundly tapering, very finely and sparsely punc- 

 tated; ventral side convex and like in the O-yrophaens species abdomen aiost 

 often curved upwards. First joint of hind tarsi longer than the following, 

 but not as long as the two following together. L. 2 mm. 



In the d' the elytra posteriorly at side of the suture with a sharp, 

 glistening grain; posterior margin o^" sixth free dorsal joint of abdomen 

 at middle emarginate (Sharp, Janglb.). 



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