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DiSOPIIKVS (?) Ol'IlU'l'lUM, J-/-, nov. 



Nigra ; protJiorace, mesonoto, scutel/o, Jiiesopleurisqtce 

 stipra rufis ; alis fiiniatis, stigniate nervisquc nigris; pedibns 

 nigris, tarsis anterioribiis a/bis ; tibiis antecis testaceis. $ . 



Long. 8 mm. 



Antenn.x' black ; the .scape covered with white hair; the 

 flagellum thickly with black pubescence. Head smooth and 

 shining; the face and clypeus thicklycoveredwithwhitehair; 

 the clypeal foveae deep ; the depression below the antennaj 

 deep, triangular ; the two antennal keels stout, laterally 

 oblique. Mandibles and palpi black, thickly covered with 

 white hair. Middle lobe of the mesonotum finely punc- 

 tured ; a distinct keel down the middle of the basal half; 

 the furrows are obscurely crenulatcd. Scutellar depression 

 deep, smooth ; a distinct, sharp keel down its centre ; its 

 centre at the base is raised and bluntly keeled ; the sides 

 and apex above have a raised margin. The base of the 

 median segment is obliquely depressed ; the apex of the 

 segment has an oblique slope, and is bordered above 

 by a stout keel ; the centre is depressed, the sides 

 raised, the top of the raised part narrowed and rounded ; 

 the oblique apex is obliquely striated ; the striae converg- 

 ing towards the middle. The lower part of the propleurse 

 is irregularly obliquely striated ; the mesopleura^ black, red 

 at the base and broadly above ; below thickly covered 

 with white hair; the apex above deeply depressed; behind 

 the middle is an oblique row of stout, irregular stri?e. 

 Metapleuras finely rugose ; on the basal half are two stout, 

 widely separated keels ; below is a stout angularly curved 

 one; the apex has some stout, oblique keels. Mesosternum 

 closely punctured ; the central furrow is stoutly crenulated. 

 Legs thickly covered with white pubescence ; the front 

 tibiae and the base of the middle pair testaceous ; the four 

 anterior tarsi white. Abdomen smooth and shining ; the 



