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 sometimes (subg. Mycota e t al.) distinctly incurved (or emarginate, trsl.) 

 Abdomen of uniform breadth or in several species feebly fusiform and slight- 

 ly narrowing posteriorly, but never so decidedly tapering as in the spe- 

 cies of first series; its first three free dorsal joints are depressed 

 at base and the fifth sometimes longer than the fourth. iJ^iddle -coxae in 

 most of the subgenera are somewhat separated, but almost contiguous in 

 Hy.<roecia , which thereby comes closer to I/.e taxya in fifth series; in 

 Hy,Toecia the tip of mesosternum is unusual short and almost rectangular 

 and reaches only //3 in between the coxae; in all the other subgenera it is 

 more tapering ana longer. In subg. Halobreotha the mesosternum is an- 

 teriorly finely carinated in middle-line. 



11. Subgenus Homalota s. str. WIuls. et Rey. 

 37. r. incognita Sharp. 



(Sharp r.ev. Brit. Horn, ISl; Thoms. upusc. Ent. II, 1870, 13C; Janglb. 

 Kaf. M. II, 177). 



Closely allied to H. castanoptera Wannh. but as a rule somewhat lar- 

 ger, broader and more robust than this species; the antennae are longer 

 and less thickened distally, head and pronotum with less gloss and elytra 

 more distinctly punctated, and in the o^ the posterior margin of the next- 

 last dorsal joint of abdomen smooth, without spines. 



Elack, finely haired; head, pronotum and elytra with moderated shine, 

 and sometimes with feeble, murky bronze reflection; elytra brownish-yel- 

 low, darkly shaded around scutellum and on hind corners; abdomen black 

 glistening; antennae reddish- or pitch-brown, their base and the legs 

 reddish yellow. 



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