Genus 6. — TOPHODERES. 153 
tenues, nigra, articulo octavo albido-pubescente, clava dilatata, 
fusco - holosericea. Thorax sub-trapeziformis , latitudine postica 
dimidio brevior, versus apicem abrupte attenuatus, antice trunca- 
tus, basi bi-sinuatus, marginatus, angulis sub-prominulis, intra 
basin striga trasversa flexuosa elevata, ad angulos baseos utrinque 
excurrente , indeque, acutangulatim fracta , antrorsum producta , 
marginem lateralem fere ad apicem constituente ; dorso obsoletis- 
sime tuberculatus , subüliter punctulatus, linea media interrupta , 
vitta abbreviata apicis utrinque liturisque aliquot sparsis albo- 
villosis. Scutellum sub-quadratum, albo-villosum. Elytra thorace 
nonnihil latiora et fere triplo longiora, basi singulatim obtuse 
sub-rotundata, lateribus vix ampliata , apice conjunctim sub-rotun- 
data, supra modice convexa, coriacea , inconcinne et vix conspicue 
striato-punctata, dorso passim obsolete tuberculata, fasciis dua- 
bus, una ante medium sub-maculari, altera pone medium lineari , 
integra, punctisque rarius sparsis, albo-villosis. Pygidium coria- 
ceum, fusco-pubescens, apice rotundatum. Corpus subtus con- 
vexum, atrum, concolor. Pedes mediocres, tibiis tarsorumque 
articuli unguicularis annulo albido-villosis; plantis fulvo-spon- 
giosis. 
An femina Tophoderis frenati, uti suspicatur Cel. Klug, observa- 
tionibus ulterioribus subjiciendum.— F gs. 
Q 3. T. Fznnvcarcs. Klug. 
Oblongo-ovatus , niger, tomento ferrugineo, fusco albidoque obsitus, 
thorace dorso albo punctato elvtrisque obsolete tuberculatis, his 
fascia, postica. flavo-griseo-villosa. 
Anthribus id. Kruc , Ins. von Madagascar. p. 103. 156. 
Patria : Madagascar. D. ScnürPEr. Mus. Schu. 
Longitudo maris, praeter rostrum , 6 '/, femine 7 lin. Par. Cor- 
pus totum nigrum. Caput sub-quadratum, zqualiter convexum , 
punctatum, femine supra dense albido-tomentosum ; rostrum 
capite vix longius, basi attenuatum, apice emarginatum , dorso 
planiusculum , tenuiter carinatum , femine uti caput dense albido- 
tomentosum. Antenne sub-tenues, nigre, maris corpore bre- 
viores , articulis funiculi apice albido-pubescentibus , femine basin 
thoracis vix attingentes , clava compressa, fusco-tomentosa. Thorax 
