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hb. Elytral markings narrowed pos- 

 teriorly.* 



c. Markings covering more than 



half of the elytra .... cucvMatus, Blackb, 

 CO. Markings covering but a 



small portion of the elytra scvtellaris, Er. 

 AA. Head unarmed in both sexes. 



B. Pro thorax partly red ciuerinv, Macl. 



BE. Prothorax entirely dark. 

 C. Elytra dark at apex 



d. Elytral costae indistinct, 



apical markings regular . amabilis, Lea. 

 dd. Elytral costae distinct, apical 



markings irregular . . . basalis, Wath. 

 CC. Elytra of uniform colour. 



D. Antennae of male as long 



as body dentipes, n. sp, 



DD. Antennae of both sexes 

 shorter than body. 



E. Median jsrothoracic 

 sulcus dilated in 



middle insidiator, Fairm. 



EE. This sulcus parallel- 

 sided minor, n. sp. 



Calochromus scutellaris, Er. (AnarhyncJms), Wiegni. 

 Arch., 1842, p. 146; Wat., Cist. Ent., II, p. 195; 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 84, t. II, figs. 113- 

 115 ; 111. Typ. Col., p. 2. 



Bremei, Le Guill., Rev. Zoo]., 1844, p. 221. 

 ? nodicollis, Bourg., Ana. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1883, p. 63, 

 PL IV, figs, l-la.f 



* This will not include the variety of scutellaris noted below. 



t I sent a specimen of a species which ajjjieared to agree with 

 Erichson's description of scidellaris to my valued correspondent 

 Mons. Bourgeois, telling him that it seemed also to agree with his 

 description of nodicoUis. In reply he stated : " The Calochromus is 

 my nodicoUis male, but not scutellaris, Er. ; the two species are very 

 different, I have seen the type of scutellaris at the Museum at Berlin. 

 Its epistome is not triangularly notched as in both sexes of nodicoUis 

 but cut straight off in front." After his description of nodicoUis he 

 states that, " At first sight this remarkable species singularly recalls 

 G. scutellaris. It is removed, however, from all its congeners by the 

 profound emargination of the epistome, which causes the labrum 



