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tatus, ante scutellum breviter et profunde canaliculatus, 

 utrinque tuberculo parvo, transverso, brunneosetulosus. 

 Elytra paullo pone humeros latissima, levissime striata, 

 in strigis indistincte punctulata et brunneo-aibidosetulosa, 

 interstitiis pianis, subtiliter rugulosopunctatis, setis brunneis, 

 albidis variegatim vestita, macula suturali albida,apice muri- 

 cata. Subtus aequaliters quamulis albidis elongatis vestitus. 

 Pedes albido-setulosi, femoribus denticulo perparvo ar- 

 matis, tarsis brunneis, ungulis intus denticulatis. Long. 

 2 — 2,8 mm. 



rj: Rostrum vix thoracis longitudine, validum, dense 

 punctatum, brunneosetulosum, antennis longe ante medium 

 insertis. Pygidium apice levissime et indistincte incisum. 

 Segmentum ventrale ultimum medium late et profunde 

 impressum. Tibiae intermediae et posteriores apice interna 

 spinula parva armatae. 



y: Rostrum thorace paullo longiore, nudum, subtilius 

 punctatum, antennis paullo ante medium insertis. Pygi- 

 dium non incisum. Segmentuni ventrale ultimum aequale. 

 Tibiae muticae. 



This species belongs to the difficult group of margi- 

 natus Payk. and is remarkable by having the thorax only 

 r/i times broader than long (while by the allied species 

 marginatiis Payk, ragusae Bris, and incisus Schultze it is 

 nearly twice broader than long) and the anterior margin 

 of thorax not so strongly raised as by the above named 

 allied species as also by having the cinereous setæ of 

 elytra mixed with indistinct spots of white setæ (by mar- 

 ginatiis and ragusae the elytra have only very few irre- 

 gularly consperged white scales (not setæ) and by incisus 

 the white spots on elytra consist — for the greater part 

 at least — of scales (not setæ). From the above named 

 allied species it may moreover be distinguished on the 

 following points. 



From C. marginatus Payk. it may be separated by 

 smaller size and more oblong elytra and by the small 



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