N:o 10] Coleoptera niediterrauea. et rosso-asiatica. 3 



Prope oppidnm Constantine Algiriae in convalli montis 

 Biban cl. 11 et 13 Maji 1899 specimina duo inveni. 



32. Liciims siibmargiuatiis n. sp. 



Oblongns, opacus, niger, snpra glaber; capite satis fortiter 

 punctato; prothorace transverso, postice leviter angnstato, 

 antice fortiter emarginato, apice versus angnlos posticos te- 

 nuiter sed distincte marginato, margine medio evanescenti, 

 snpra confertim profunde pnnctato ; elytris snbovalibns, in 

 ntroqne sexn opacis, snbtiliter striato-pnnctatis, interstitiis 

 planis, snbtiliter irregnlariter pnnctatis; abdomine segmento 

 primo ntrinqne confertim profnnde, secnndo snbtilins et 

 remotins, ceteris obsolete pnnctatis strignlosisqne. Long, 

 n— 18 mm. 



Species magna, opaca, in elytris snbtilins pnnctata L. 

 cassideo Fabr. primo intnitn similis, sed differt protliorace 

 apice ntrinqne distincte marginato etytrisqne lateribns dis- 

 tincte rotnndatis, ovalibns, nec medio parallells ideoqne O. 

 planicolli Fan v. magis affinis, sed ab liac specie capite minns 

 fortiter pnnctato, elytris in ntroqne sexn opacis, snbtilins 

 ^Dnnctatis diversns. — Capnt magnnm, rotnndatnm, minns 

 dense, medio panllo fortins et densins pnnctatm, impressionibns 

 lateralibns qnam in L. cassideo panllo distinctioribns. Protlio- 

 rax magnns, latns, longitndine fere dnplo latior, forma om- 

 nino nt in L. cassideo, sed lateribns panllo latins explanatis, 

 disco minns convexo, antice medio vix, lateribns distincte 

 nsqne ad angnlos licet tenniter marginatns, snpra confertim 

 fortiter, disco panllo remotins pnnctatns, linea longitndinali 

 ntrinqne abbreviata distincte impressa. Scntellnm obsoletis- 

 sime longitndinaliter strignlosnm. Elytra basi prothorace vix 

 latiora, latitndine sna fere sesqni longiora, lateribns modice 

 rotnndata, ovalia, qnam in L. cassideo distincte latiora, apice 

 distincte sinnata; snpra perparnm convexa, opaca, tenniter 

 pnnctato-striata, interstitiis planis, pnnctis sparsis qnam stria- 

 rnm panllo majoribns, liinc inde seriatim dispositis, qnam in 

 L. aeqiiato Dej. et L. planicolli Fan v. minns profnnde im- 



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