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strongly declivous, very concave from base to apex, and is provided 
along the nearly vertical basal carina with an arcuate smooth ledge, 
the apical part of the clypeus slants backwards, is strongly aculeate 
at the tip, and penicillate there, the labrum being completely fused 
with the clypeus without traces of a suture; eyes large, canthus 
very small; antennz 10-jointed, club tri-jointed and as long as 
the whole pedicel, third to fifth joints very angular inwardly, sixth 
and seventh greatly compressed and sub-lamellate inwardly, the 
seventh, however, projecting less than the sixth ; prothorax rounded 
laterally and with the basal angles also broadly rounded, not much 
convex; scutellum cordate; elytra parallel, somewhat depressed, 
without costules or striz# with the exception of the juxta-sutural 
stria which is, however, very faint, and covers only the basal part of 
the propygidium; pygidium vertical, bluntly triangular; anterior 
tibiz sharply tri-dentate ; intermediate and posterior ones with an 
oblique, punctulate but not bristly carina, hind tibize very broadly 
dilated at the apex, the upper spur long, compressed, rounded at 
apex, the lower sharp; hind femora short, swollen. The labial palpi, 
tarsi, and claws are missing in my example. 
The rudimentary structure of the maxillee coupled with the apical 
insertion of the maxillary palpi would seem to imply that the males 
of the species included in this genus take no food. In shape it 
somewhat resembles Cyclomera and Periclitopa, the buccal organs 
of which are, however, very different. 
Key to the Species. 
Elytra without costules on the elytra, the latter very finely punctured hirsuta. 
Elytra with costules on the elytra, the latter less finely punctured ..  hirticollis. 
AIPEIOPSIS HIRSUTA, N. spec. 
Male: Reddish-brown, with the elytra light chestnut-brown, club 
of antenne flavescent, frontal part, prothorax, scutellum, and pectus 
clothed with a very long and very dense fulvous pubescence, 
pro-pygidium and pygidium with appressed, sub-flavescent, fine 
hairs similar to but not so dense as those clothing the sides of the 
abdomen, femora villose; elytra with a very short, appressed 
flavescent pubescence springing from the extremely closely set, fine 
punctures which impart to the elytra a finely coriaceous appearance ; 
frontal part deeply and somewhat widely punctate, almost scro- 
biculate, straight laterally, bounded in front by a sharp transverse 
carina, clypeus strongly parabolic in front, very concave, strongly 
declivous at the basal part, the declivity bounded in the lower 
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