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liter, crebie punctulatum , flavo-testaceum, nilidum, po- 

 stice late nigrum, niaculis ckiabiis parvis, triangularibus, 

 interdiim confluentibus , flavo-testaceis includente, nigredine 

 aiitice rotundato, ti'i-emarginalo, emarginatura media la- 

 tiorij labro palpisque flavo-testaceis; maiidibulis piceis; 

 oculis rotundafis, modice coiivexis, glaucis, medio infusca- 

 tis. Antennae llavo-testaceae. Prothorax latitudiiie postica 

 plus triplo bievior, antice utrinque leviter sinuatus, me- 

 dio parum rotundato-productus, lateribus ab apice usque 

 ad basin oblique ampliafus, postice utrinque leviter si- 

 nuatus, angulis anticis antrorsum prominulis, acutis, 

 basalibus retrorsum modice productis, sub-acuminatls,- 

 supra convexiusculus, (lavo-testaceus, nitidus, subtilissime, 

 crebre punctulatus, utrinque sub-remote, irregulariter 

 aciculatus, medio vitta transversa, brevi, nigra ornatus. 

 Scutellum parvum, triangulare, nigrum, sub-laeve. Elytra 

 ovata, antice protboracis basi baud latiora, pone basin 

 ad medium paullo ampliata, dein apicem versus angu- 

 stata, apice conjunctim sub-rotundata, intra marginem 

 subtiliter, remote punctulata; supra convexiuscula, tri- 

 seriatim, remote punctata, flavo-testacea, nitida, punctis 

 crebi'is, nigris, confluentibus, antice extrorsum parcius 

 notata , singulo lineis tribus angustis, longitudinalibus, 

 una juxta suturam, altera ante et tertia in medio, ex- 

 terioie nonnihil flexa, fascia transversa, minus lata, 

 inaequali, medio interrupla, maculaque obsoleta juxta 

 apicem flavo-testaceis; margine inflexo concolore. Corpus 

 subtus subtilissime, crebre coiiaceum, piceum , nitidum; 

 abdomine interdum ferrugineo. Pedes anteriores rufo- 

 testacei, postici picei; femoribus basi apiceque ferrugineis. 



254. Hydaticus ajncalis: ovalis, convexiusculus, nitidus, 

 subtus piceus; capite flavo-testaceo, postice nigro, 

 flavo-tri-maculato; prothorace subtiliter, crebre pun- 

 ctulato, flavo-testaceo, pone medium vitta transversa 

 longiori, utrinque abbreviata, nigra, medio ramulum 

 brevem, apice dilatatum, antei'ius emittente; elytris 



