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at. Body ovate, convex, short. 
Antenne black, with the four joints of the pedicel red breviusculus. 
Antenne ferruginous, with the club slightly fuscous in 
the male ominosus. 
ABLABEROIDES NEUS, Blanch., 
Cat. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 102. 
Trochalus longicornis, Burm., Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 162. 
Oblongo-ovate, convex, dark bronze, lighter on the head and 
prothorax than on the elytra, palpi and tarsi somewhat rufescent ; 
antennz piceous, with the four ultimate joints of the pedicel sub- 
rufescent, club of the male more than twice the length of the pedicel 
the joints of which are free; clypeus strongly constricted laterally 
and with a strong sinuation between the gene and the constricted 
part, the anterior margin is straight with the outer angles sharp 
but not dentate, the centre, however, is plainly dentate, the dentate 
part forming a carinule which divides the anterior part into two 
depressions as far as the clypeal keel which is somewhat short, the 
frontal suture is quite plain, not arcuate, the gene are strongly 
developed, and meet the hind keel of the eyes, and the whole 
surface is very deeply and closely punctate; prothorax twice as 
broad as long, bi-sinuate in front and behind, very slightly 
attenuated laterally towards the apical part the carinate margin 
of which has a fringe of not closely set bristles, it is covered with 
somewhat deep punctures separated by a smooth space slightly 
narrower than their own diameter; scutellum ogival, sparingly 
punctate; elytra about twice the length of the prothorax, some- 
what convex in the anterior part, and having four very plain dorsal 
striz on each side, the outer striz are obliterated, and the surface 
is covered with deep, somewhat coarse punctures ; pygidium some- 
what convex, closely and deeply punctate; under side very deeply 
punctate; the metasternum with a few short hairs; hind cox with 
a few lateral bristle-like hairs similar to those edging the margin 
of the elytra, femora and anterior coxe hairy; anterior tibiz tri- 
dentate but with the basal outer tooth much smaller than the others, 
although distinct ; anterior tarsi shorter than the intermediate or 
posterior ones, the basal one of the latter is as long as the one fol- 
lowing, and shorter than the apical spur, the broadly dilated and 
somewhat short hind tibize are strongly spinose inwardly, and the 
hind coxe have a nearly straight posterior margin; abdominal 
segments with one row of briefly setigerous punctures. 
In the male the tubular part of the armature is deeply, roundly 
