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prominent, springing from a cross nerve distant from the base, the 

 intervening space crossed by 3 nerves ; the chief nerves have a few 

 cross nervures between them. Sternum; the rostral channel widest 

 on the mesosternum. Legs ; thighs (especially the third pair) gra- 

 dually thicker towards the end, the apex itself being narrower, the 

 3rd pair beneath with several spines. 



Abdomen above flat ; beneath convex ; the posterior margin of the 

 6th segment deeply concave, the sides projecting beyond the short 

 genital segments in a short but acute point : Connexivum broad, 

 rounded, subvertical. 



Species 1. CERALEPTUS SQUALIDUS. 



CERALEPTUS SQUALIDUS, Cost. Cent. 2, 13, t. 4, fig. 7 (1843); Fieb. 



Europ. Hem. 219, 1 (1861). 

 LIVIDUS, Stein. Berl. Ent. Zeits. 2, 75, 3 (1858). 



Elliptic, ochreous, finely granulated, each granule placed in a punc- 

 ture. 



Head. Crown covered with strong black and ochreous granules, 

 except a clear line in the centre and on each side ochreous, the 

 latter extending from the base of the head to the end of the lateral 

 process ; Face strongly granulated with black and ochreous mixed ; 

 the central lobe much raised, the granules in the centre ochreous, 

 and at each side black, forming a line. Antenna strong, set with 

 strong, short appressed hairs; 1st joint thickly granulated with 

 black on an ochreous ground ; 2nd and 3rd red, the latter on the 

 upper half covered with black granulations ; 4th black, finely granu- 

 lated, the tip reddish. ~Ey es brown. Ocelli ochreous-brown. Eos- 

 trum pitchy-black ; the sides of the rostral channel, and the under 

 side of the head pale ochreous. 



Thorax. Pronotum ; the sides black, on the first half with strong, 

 black, projecting granules, the lower half gradually margined, white, 

 ending at the hinder angles in a wide tooth ; disk ochreous with 

 distant black and ochreous granulated punctures ; in front a central, 

 long, black spot, from which a whitish line extends to the posterior 

 margin. Scutellum deep ochreous, with black, granulated punc- 

 tures, the sides narrowly black, the apex white, Elytra ; Clavus 

 and Corium ochreous, with distinct, distant, granulated punctures in 



