N:o 10] Coleoptera mediterranea et rosso-asiatica. 7 



angustioribns, convexis, alntaceis; corpore subtns griseo-tomen- 

 toso, metasterno postice pläga miiiore polita oblouga prae- 

 dito. Long. 1,5 mm. 



Praecedenti dnplo minor, angustior, elytris dense pun- 

 ctato-striatis, interstitiis convexis, corpore snpra toto alutaceo, 

 liaiid pimctato, corpore aiitico rubro- vel violaceo-cupreo, elytris 

 fusco-aeiieis ab omnibus speciebus liujus subgenesis bene di- 

 stinctus. — Caput satis magiinm, rubro-cuprenm, clypeo con- 

 vexiusculo sulco distincto arcnato discreto et fronte satis dis- 

 tincte alntaceis, sed hand pnnctatis, foveis frontalibns satis 

 profnndis, medio puncto polito obsoletissimo (ocello) praeditis; 

 foveola occipitali nnlla. Antennae et palpi pallide ilavi. Pro- 

 tliorax qnam in affinibns angnstior, postice fortiter constrictns, 

 violaceo- vel rnbro-cnprens, satis nitidns, nbiqne confertim 

 snbtiliter alntacens, medio snlco profnndo fere percnrrente 

 instructus, foveolis et fossis laterialibus minns profnndis, Ms 

 arcnatis, lobis apicalibns terminantibns, foveolis coloniformi- 

 bns anterioribns parvis, obsoletis, snbrotnndis, posticis oblon- 

 gis, distinctioribns, in depressione transversa satis profunda 

 positis, lateribns mox pone medinm abrnpte coarctatis, mem- 

 brana angnsta albida fere totnm prothoracem cingenti. Elytra 

 angnsta, elongato-ovata, ante medinm levissime dilatata, snpra 

 modice convexa, fnsco-aenea, confertim snbtiliter alntacea et 

 transversim rngosa, pnbe brevi minns distincta incnrva, seria- 

 tim disposita instrncta, dense striato-pnnctata, pnnctis in striis 

 obsoletissimis positis, snbqnadratis, inter se panllo minns qnam 

 diametro pnnctornm remotis, interstitiis pnnctis panllo angnsti- 

 oribns, convexis ; epiplenris dilnte ferrngineis. Corpns snbtns 

 griseo-tomentosnm, metasterno postice pläga parva polita. 

 Pedes pallide testacei, tarsornm articnlo nltimo apice nigro- 

 2)iceo; tarsis posticis tibiis ^/g brevioribus, articnlo nltimo va- 

 lido, praecedentibns simnl snmtis aeqnilongis, nngniculis lon- 

 gis, parnm cnrvatis. 



In monte Kopetli Dagli cnm praecedente nnicnm speci- 

 men invenit dom. Konst. Ahnger. 



