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1. Subgenus Poromniusa CJanglb. 



1. 0. procldua Er. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br.. I, 315} ien. Spec. Staph. S8 [Homalota] ; Kraatz 

 Ins. E. II, 190 r -^xypodaj ; Muls. at Rey Brevip. 1874, 423; Gianglb. Kaf. M. 

 II, 82). 



A small species, identified by the color and the robust punctation of 

 the foreDody. 



The body is short, proportionately rather broad, coalblack, finely and 

 sparsely haired, somewhat glistening; legs sometimes brownish-red, often- 

 est pitch-brown. 



The head is much narrower than pronotum, with robust and rather dense 

 punctation, the punctures round and deep; antennae short, smoothly thick- 

 ened distallyv their third joint shorter and smaller than the second, both 

 reversed conical, the next-last ones twice as broad as long, distal joint 

 rather thick and short, obtusely rounded at tip. Pronotum short, about as 

 broad as elytra, 1^ times as broad as long, anteriorly slightly narrowing 

 with round sides and rounded-off hina corners, dorsum slightly convex, ful- 

 ly as robustly and as densely punctated as the head, posteriorly sometimes 

 feebly grooved in middle-line. Elytra but very little longer than pronotum, 

 and with still denser and more robust, and in proportion to size of animal 

 coarse punctation, their posterior margin inside the outer corners distinct- 

 ly incurved; abdomen broad, equally broad or feebly broadened at middle, v.ith 

 fine, dense and rather smooth punctation. Legs and tarsi aro short; hind 

 tarsal first joint as long as the following two short joints together, hard- 

 ly es long as the claw-joint. L. 2 mm. 



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