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 thick and short neck, sharp and oftenest entirely marginated temples 

 and genae, the eyes which are placed on sides are rather large, or 

 very large, rarely small, labrum most often cleft. Dorsal side of 

 head with several rather large bristle-bearing punctures, the number 

 and position of which often furnish important characters of species. 

 The large posterior puncture on forehead is of particular importance, 

 it is situated between inner posterior margin of the eye and con- 

 striction of the neck; back of this nearest the constriction-groove 

 are several punctures on the vertex, farther to the side, back of the 

 eye are several punctures on temple, and anteriorly on forehead at 

 inner margin of the eye oftenest several punctures, of which the fare- 

 most is called first forehead puncture. Antennae not long, occasion- 

 nally slightly thickened outwardly, their third Joint oftenest lon- 

 ger than the second. Last joint of maxillary palpi smoothly taper- 

 ing, only a little narrower than the next-last, and distinctly longer 

 than this. 



Fig. 110. ^ uedius mesomelinus lu'arsh. a: First, b: last 

 large bristle-bearing puncture of the forehead, c: Vertex 

 punctures. 1: Dorsal punctures of pronotum. e: Side- 

 marginal large bristle-bearing puncture. 



Pronotum is broad, often broader than elytra, with rounded, fine- 

 ly marginate sides and posterior margin, and strongly deflected an- 

 terior corners, dorsum convex, as a rule provided with three (except- 

 ionally with only one or four) pairs of larger punctures on the dor- 

 sum anteriorly, arranged behind each other in such manner that it 

 forms two short punctate rows, near side-margin and before middle of 



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