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strigose, with aciculai- punctures near the suture, on the outer 

 margin there is one complete, very distinct stria, and in the 

 dorsal region near the suture there are longitudinal uneven 

 masses, which correspond probably to sutural striaj ; propy- 

 gidium and pygidium densely punctured, punctures re- 

 sembling those on the apices of the elytra ; tlie prosternum is 

 wholly and densely covered with acicular punctures, the 

 margin of the anterior lobe is without a stria, the strige on the 

 keel are raised into carinse, not separated widely and nearly 

 straight, but joining anteriorly, the median area is rugosely 

 punctured and the base incised ,• mesosternum transverse, 

 produced in the centre, covered, not densely, with rather large 

 irregular punctures ; metasternum laterally bistriate, inner 

 stria nearly straight, punctures more scattered than on the 

 mesosternum and distinctly acicular; the first segment of the 

 abdomen has similar punctures more densely set and somewhat 

 similar lateral strias ; the tibias are all widely dilated and 

 angulate on the outer edge, and the fore tibise are armed with 

 three teeth on the outside of the tarsal groove. 



Hah. Bahia. 



Paratropus antlir acinus ^ sp. n. 



Ovalis, parum convexus, niger, nitidissimus ; pronoto in medio trans- 

 versim striate ; elytris striis l*-3'" integris, 4" anticc hamata, su- 

 turali crenulata ; propygidio postice prominulo ; tibiis modice 

 dilatatis. 



L. 1| mill. 



Oval, rather convex, jet-black, and shining ; head impunc- 

 tate, the epistoma is margined by two conspicuous carinjiB, 

 which, viewed from above, give an outline like two small 

 tubercles ; thorax dilated at the sides as in Hekerius hrunnei- 

 pennis, the lateral sulcus is short, ending in a fovea well 

 before the base, the fovea being connected with the corre- 

 sponding fovea on the other side by a fine bow-shaped stria 

 which traverses the median area of the thorax, behind this 

 stria are ten punctures, five on each side, equidistant from 

 one another ; elytra, the striffi are fine and clearly cut, first to 

 third complete, first turning obliquely towards the second at 

 the base, second and third bent, but parallel to each other, 

 fourth widely crenulate apically, and anteriorly well before the 

 base it is incurved (or hooked) towards the suture, the sutural 

 stria is composed of wide irregular crenulations ; the propy- 

 gidium is transverse, with obtusely angulate posterior corners, 

 viewed sideways the posterior edge is seen to be built up in 

 a most remarkable way, projecting beyond the pygidium j the 



