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lately wrinkled, its hind margin is well defined and runs up- 

 from either side to a somewhat tubercle-like angulation in the 

 middle. The scutellum is impunctate. The elytra are not 

 quite twice as long as the prothoras ; their sculpture is as 

 follows : a well defined entire sutural stria followed by a 

 smooth space, then fire rows of very fine punctures which 

 scarcely pass the middle of the elytron (the third of these 

 rows is somewhat confused by means of a few scattered 

 punctures- outside the row), then a space in which the punc- 

 tures of about two rows seem to be mixed together, then 

 two more distinct rows a little longer than the rest, then an 

 impunctate space extending to the margin ; all the system of 

 puncturation is placed somewhat obliquely, inclining towards- 

 the suture hindward ; the hinder fourth part of the space 

 outside the system of puncturation, and the apex, are finely, 

 confusedly, and rather closely punctulate. In both sexes th& 

 propygidium is coarsely rugose and clothed with golden hairs, 

 and the pygidium is closely punctulate and wrinkled near the 

 base (where there is a fringe of long golden hairs) and im- 

 punctate or nearly so behind. The underside (except the 

 ventral segments which are punctured only near the lateral 

 margins) and legs are much clothed with long reddish or 

 golden hairs. The intermediate ventral segments are much 

 shorter in the male than in the female. The anterior tibiae- 

 are strongly tridentate externally in both sexes ; the inter- 

 mediate and posterior are unicarinate, with some indication 

 of another carina near the base, the carina and the apex 

 being fringed with a close-set row of thick scale-like bristles. 



I do not find much tendency in this insect to vary. In 

 some examples the sculpture of the head has a blurred appear- 

 ance, as though it were rubbed out, and in some it consists of 

 puncturation rather than wrinkles, and vice versa. The 

 development of the hind margin of the prothoracic excavation 

 in the male also varies a little ; in the specimen on which the 

 above description was founded that margin rises in a nearly 

 straight line from either side to the central prominence which 

 is not directed upward so strongly as in some other examples, 

 while it is not unusual to find the sides of the hind margin of 

 the excavation more or less decidedly sinuous on either side 

 of the central prominence. 



Apparently allied to Pimelopus notTius, Burm. (which as 

 mentioned above, is evidently a member of this genus). Dr. 

 Burmeister distinguishes that insect from the next to it, 

 P. lavis (of which only the female is known, and therefore the 

 generic position is doubtful), by (among other characters) its 

 clypeus not being bidentate in front ; this character, together 

 with the presence of some elytral striation, will also distinguish 



