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minent; viewed from above hemispherical, from the side narrow, 

 long-oval ; the hinder margin slightly projecting beyond the trans- 

 verse keel ; Nostrum reaching beyond the 3rd pair of coxae ; 1st joint 

 stout. 



Thorax. Pronotum longish trapeziform, very much narrower in 

 front than the head across the eyes, posteriorly; broader than long 

 without callosities behind the anterior margin, angles rounded; 

 sides concave; hinder angles raised; posterior margin concave, 

 rounded towards and at the hinder angles, or convex, indented in the 

 middle ; disk convex. Scutellum large, triangular, with a transverse 

 channel next the base ; centre of the disk with a large callosity, raised 

 above the clavus. Elytra longer than the abdomen, widening from be- 

 hind the middle ; Clavus convex, deflected to the corium ; Corium 

 convex, somewhat embracing the abdomen, elevated from beyond the 

 middle towards the cuneus and membrane, which are very much de- 

 flected ; Cuneus short, base as broad or almost as broad as the length. 

 Sternum: Prosternum ; xyphus short, triangular ; Mesosternum con- 

 vex, somewhat contracted, and deflected posteriorly ; posterior 

 margin notched ; Metasternum raised into a callosity in the middle, 

 widened posteriorly. Legs long, somewhat stout, hinder pair longest ; 

 3rd pair of tibia thickened in the middle, somewhat bent and flat- 

 tened on the sides ; tarsi short, slender ; 3rd joint as long as or 

 longer than the 2nd ; 1st shortest. 



Species 1. CAMARONOTUS CINNAMOPTERUS. 



CAPSUS CINNAMOPTEUUS, Kirschb. Caps. 72, 81, and 135, 10 (1855). 



(CAPSUS) CINNAMOPTERUS, Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 572, 60 (1860). 

 CAMARONOTUS Fieb. Europ. Hem. 313, 1 (1861). 



Cinnamon-brown, very sparingly clothed with short, yellowish hairs. 



Head. Crown more or less piceous in the centre. Antenna; 1st 

 joint brownish-yellow ; 2nd black, base narrowly brownish-yellow, 

 very slightly thinner than the 1st ; 3rd black, base narrowly red ; 

 4th yellowish -white, apex brown. Eyes brown-black. Rostrum 

 brown. 



Thorax. Pronotum black ; sides almost straight to within a little 

 of the hinder angles, then suddenly widened ; posterior margin con- 

 vex, indented in the middle; disk convex, transversely wrinkled, 

 deflected to the scutellum and base of the corium from a little within 



