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ENITHARES BERGROTHI Montandon. 



Enithares bergrothi Montand., Rov. ent. franc, xi, 1892, p. 75; Kirk., Wien. 



ent. Zeit., xxiii, 1904, p. 105. 

 Enithara austraUca Signoret, Saniml. (MS.). 

 IBothronotiis luniger Fieber, Abhand. der kouigl. bolim. (Jes. der Wiss. (5), vii, 



1852, p. 741. (White form.) 



Plate X, fig. 1. 



Notoeephalon pale, basally wrinkled or pnnctate and with a low triangular 

 tubercle at hinder margin ; punctate on each side towards vertex, and with a line 

 of punctures bordering each eye ; vertex twice or a little more than twice as wide 

 as synthlipsis, which is rather less than half the width of an eye. Pronotum 

 black on posterior half, sometimes with the front edge broadly margined with 

 black; foveate excavations ochraceous or black; about 2-5 times wider than long; 

 anterior half densely punctured and finely wrinkled; posterior half smooth and 



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rig. .370. Enithares hcrgruthi: a and b, anterior and intermediate legs. 



polished, with a few small, scattered punctures. Scutellum pale or black, often 

 with an oblique, ochraceous dash of varying shape on each side; about 1-5 times 

 longer than pronotum, densely covered with fine punctures. Hemelytra black, 

 sometimes paler laterally and on claval suture ; clothed with tiny hairs ; shining 

 and densely covered with minute punctures. First joint of anterior tarsus about 

 twice as long as the second; claws equal, as long as the second tarsal segment; 



