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 depressed at base. In this they are opposite to all other Homalota spe- 

 cies, which at most have only three at base depressed joints, and are 

 thereby easily identified. 



The head in subgenus Dadobia is conspicuously square with sharp hind 

 corners and straight .sides; in the other subgenera i§ more or less round- 

 ed off. Temples and jenae are most often margined, in sub;jenus Ptychandra 

 peculiarly sharp and undulated, in Plataraea incomplete, and only in subg. 

 Dadobia and Pachnida entirely wanting. The eyes are normally large, rare- 

 ly as in Plataraea rather small; antennae quite robust, the outer or next- 

 last joints transverse. Pronotum varies in form; elytra always longer 

 than pronotum; abdomen of even breadth, its fourth free dorsal joint dis- 

 tinctly depressed at base like the three preceding; the fifth free joint 

 is sometimes longer than the fourth, as in Bessobia . The middle coxae are 

 rather broadly separated in Alianta and Ptychandra , in the rest rather 

 close togethe: or even contiguous at middle; the tip of mesosternum 

 reaches at least to the middle between the coxae. First joint of hini tar- 

 si is only in Ptychandra somewhat elongate, longer than the second. 

 25. Subgenus Anopleta Muls et Bey. 

 84. H. corvina Thoms. 



(Thorns. Ofv. Vet. Ac. Korn. 1856, 101, Skand. 3ol. Ill, 88; Sharp Fev. 

 Erlt. Hom. 212; langlb. Kaf. M. II, 201. - lepida Kraatz Ins. C. II, 30t ; 

 Muls, et Pay Br^vip. 1875, 22). 



A small, rather narrow and evenly broad species with large head, nar- 

 row pronotum ana proportionately Ion.; elytra, in form not unlike angusti - 

 collis, but smaller, ana on account of the four transversally grooved free 



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