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larger than the eye, its under surface blackish and sub-globu- 

 lar, its upper surface testaceous, flattish, and divided into 

 three or four well-defined areola ; the next four joints are 

 narrow, sub-conic, a little produced on the inner side and very 

 slightly decreasing in width successively ; the remainder are 

 broken off in my specimen but probably resemble those im- 

 mediately preceding them. The upper surface is shining, the 

 head and thorax obscurely punctured, the elytra punctured 

 sparingly and largely about the base and apex, much more 

 closely and coarsely on the intermediate space. The whole 

 insect is clothed with long hairs. The elytra widest behind, 

 where together they are nearly half again as wide as the 

 thorax. 



The female differs from the male in being darker coloured 

 (probably a mere accidental variation in the single example 

 before me), having the w^hole disc of the thorax black and the 

 legs (except the anterior tarsi) wholly pitchy. Its antennae 

 are pitchy black, the external (supposing the antennae directed 

 forwards) margin of the basal joints paler, the basal joint 

 resembling that of the male, but unarmed, the second much 

 smaller than the first, obtusely produced internally, the remain- 

 ing joints slightly narrowed in succession, and each rather 

 sharply produced internally, so that the internal outline of the 

 antennae as a whole is distinctly serrate. 



Taken by Mr. Eothe near Sedan. 



Zi. distortus, sp. nov. Nigro-cyaneus ; antennis, capite, pro- 

 thorace, elytris, pedibusque, in parte testaceis (mas.) — 

 antennarum articulo secundo primo plus duplo majore, 

 primo apice acute spinoso. Long, li 1. 

 The basal two joints of the antennae, the cheeks, the whole 

 prothorax (except a large black discal spot) and the apex of 

 the elytra, are testaceous ; the tibiae and tarsi are more or less 

 pitchy testaceous. The basal joint of the antennae about equals 

 in length the diameter of the eye ; it is pear-shaped, with a 

 strong erect spine at its apex. The second joint is almost a 

 parallelogram in shape and is twice as wide as long ; in area it 

 is larger than the eye ; it is attached to the first joint at a 

 point half-way between the middle and the internal end of its 

 base, while the third joint springs almost from the external 

 end of its apical edge. The remaining joints are all slender 

 and subconical, scarcely differing from each other in width 

 but gradually increasing in length. The head and thorax are 

 quite shining, and are only obscurely punctured. The elytra 

 are subopaque, closely and finely punctured (a little more 

 shining and more sparingly punctured about the base and apex) 

 nnd are dotted over with small tubercle-like pustules. The 



