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486. — Ophidius brevicornis. n. sp. 

 Length 8 lines. 



Brassy black, densely punctate, and subopaque. Head with 

 the border depressed in front, and a broad golden yellow vitta 

 on each side between the eyes. Thorax elongate, wider behind 

 than in front, bituberculate at the base, and profoundly sulcated 

 in the middle, with three broad golden yellow vittee on the back, 

 and with the posterior angles long, acute, and carinate. Scutel- 

 lum subtriangular, rounded at the apex. Elytra subelongate, 

 subacumiuate at the apex, striate with the interstices subcostate, 

 and of a testaceous yellow colour barred and spotted with dark 

 brown. Under side of body black, subnitid, and minutely punc- 

 tate. Legs reddish brown. Antennae black, short, thick, and 

 strongly serrate. 



Though resembling very much the other species of OpMdius, 

 this insect differs considerably from all of them and from the 

 characters of the genus given by M. Candeze. The antennae 

 are peculiar, the scutellum is not at all globular, and the tarsi are 

 not dilated. 



487.— Anilicus semiflavus, Germ. Zeitschr, Y.,page 

 1G3.— Cand. Mon. vol. 4, page 329. 

 anticus Dej. Cat. Srd Ed., page 106. 



488. LUDIUS ATRIPENNIS. n. sp. 



Length 2f lines. 

 Elongate, narrow, subnitid, punctate, clothed with semi- 

 decumbent hairs, and of a black colour with the thorax above and 

 below, the three basal segments of the abdomen and the legs red. 

 Thorax with the median line lightly marked, and tlie posterior 

 angles strongly carinate. Elytra striato-punctate, the punctures 

 large and oblong. 



489. — ACRONIOPUS RDFIPENNIS. n. sp. 



Length 2j lines. 

 Brown, subopaque, punctate, and clothed with short semi-erect 

 hair. Head and thorax convex, the latter not longer than the 



