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clothed with a pale fulvous pubescence. Top of the head as far 

 as the frontal ridge short and horizontal. Thorax elongate, with 

 the median line distinct throughout, and the posterior angles 

 acute and bicarinate. Elytra reddish at the base, nearly three times 

 as long as wide, narrowed and separately rounded at the apex, and 

 striato-punctate, with the interstices nearly flat. Antennae and 

 the parts of the mouth red. Legs reddish brown and silky. 



466. MONOCRBPIDIUS RUBICUNDUS. n. Sp. 



Length 5| lines. 

 This species is of a less elongate form than the last, redder 

 in colour and more nitid. The head is less horizontal and short 

 on the upper part. The thorax is less elongate, has the median 

 line deeply marked but on posterior half only, and has the 

 posterior angles rather less acute and produced. The punctures 

 in the striee of the elytra are also larger. 



467. — MONOCREPIDIUS ATRATUS. n. Sp. 



Length 5 lines. 



Black, subopaque, densely and finely punctate and clothed 

 with very short fulvous pile. Head with a small longitudinal 

 ridge on the vertex. Thorax subconvex, and very little longer 

 than the width, with the median line slightly marked near the 

 base only, and the posterior angles rather short, acute and 

 strongly bicarinate. Scutellum as well as base of thorax clothed 

 with ashen pile. Elytra about two and a half times longer than 

 the width, rounded at the apex, and strongly striato-punctate. 

 Antennae and legs reddish brown, silky. Abdomen covered with 

 a short sericeous fulvous pile. 



468. MONOCREPIDIUS MINOR. n. sp. 



Length 4 li)ies. 



Black, subnitid, punctate and clothed with long ashen pile. 



Head with a fine longitudinal ridge on the vertex. Thorax not 



longer than the width, with the median line indistinctly marked 



and the posterior angles large, acute, and bicarinated. Scutel- 



