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DIAGNOSES PRÉLIMINAIRES D'INSECTES NOUVEAUX 



Recueillis (huis le Congo belge par le IV Siieffield Neave 



IV 

 GOLEOPTERA. — Fam. CURGULIOiNIDyE. 



bj Giiy-.4.-18. .Ylarsiiall. 



i. — Embolodes gen. nov. (Giieorrhinini). 



Caput latiim, cuin rostro coalinuain, ociilis subcircularibiis, 

 modice tantum prominulis. RostviDn validuin, non laLius (luaiu 

 longius, supra planum, apice profonde excisuin, scrobibus oniiiino 

 lateralibiis, superne coridilis, antc oculos subLer curvaLis. Axionui' 

 médiocres, scapo versus apiceiïi incrassato, ad oculi médium 

 extenso, funiculi articulis duobus basalibus longioriljus subœqua- 

 libus, creteris quam latitudine paulurn longioribus; clava elongala, 

 acuminata, articulo primo cœteris simul sumplis tcquali. ProlJoni.c 

 basi apice truncatis, margine gulai'i recto. Sciifelhi}}) comparate 

 magnum, triangulare. Elyfra auguste ovata, postice valde acumi- 

 nata et compressa, ad basin Icviter conjunctim sinuata nec quam 

 prothorax latiora, humeris nullis, sed in Ç tuberculo luimerali 

 instructa, latitudine maxima ante médium, margine laterali evi- 

 denter sinuato. Sternum coxis anticis contiguis, in medio prosterni 

 positis; metasterni epimero quam episterno multo minore et hoc 

 a basi elytrorum séparante; metasterno quam coxis mediis vix 

 longiore, episterno angusto et ad basin interne non hamato. Coxis 

 posticis elytra attingentibus. Abdomen processu intercoxali latis- 

 simo, quam coxa ipsa latiore, suturis profundis, segmento 2° quam 

 3" aut 4° paulum longiore et a primo a sutura curvata separalo. 

 Pet/es validi, femoribus clavatis, tibiis subrectis, adapicem dilatatis, 

 posticis apice valde cavernosis, tarsis latis, unguiculis parvis 

 connatis. 



Type : E. sternalis sp. nov. 



The species upon which this genus is founded might, at first 

 sight, be taken for a CJiaunoderus, but the latéral scrobes and the 

 absence of the furrow dividing the head from the rostrum will at 

 once distinguish it. The latter character, together with the much 

 less prominent eyes, will also separate it from Eucrines Jeic, 

 Ectatdpsides BovrE(= Ectalops Scliônu., nom. praeocc.)and Ocnassiis 

 Pasg. Cneo)'i'}iinus Sgiionu. diders in having the rostrum separated 



