EUTORNUS. G.J 



short and dilated ; the basal joint triangular, the breadth being equal 

 to that of the base of the tarsi ; the second of similar form, but more 

 minute ; the third broadly ovate, hardly bilobed ; from its centre 

 proceeds the terminal joint, attenuate, incurved, slightly thickened 

 towards the extremity, which terminates in a bifid claw, simple, and 

 acute ; at its inner surface, near the base, abruptly thickened. The 

 posterior femora are much incrassated and short, tapering gradually 

 towards the apex. The tibice are short, straight, unarmed by any 

 postical spur above the insertion of the tarsi, slightly thickened 

 towards the apex, whicli is obliquely truncate, and armed on either 

 side of the socket which receives the tarsus with a row of minute 

 comb-like teeth. The tarsus short, of the same form as, but more 

 attenuate than, the anterior ; the ultimate joint terminating in a 

 globular inflation above the apical claw. 



1. Eutornus Africanus. (Tab. II. fig. 8.) 



E. ovatus, lotus, punctatus, impubescens, niger; capite parvo, multum 

 depresso, inter otnilos carinato, fusco, ad basin rufo ; ihorace lato, 

 depresso, antice emarginato, ad latera ant ice constricto et valde 

 depresso, marginato, punctato, rufo-ferrugineo ; elytris latis, ro- 

 bustis, punctatis, nigris, longitudinaliter Jiavo-bivittatis ; antennis 

 brevibus, robustis, incrassatis, fuscis ; pedibus fuscis, femoribus 

 posticis ad basin rufo-Jlavis. 



Long. corp. 2| lin., lat. 1^ lin. 



Ovate, broad, subspherical, punctate, impubescent, black. Head 

 minute, transverse, depressed at right angles to the plane of the 

 elytra, not produced : above the insertion of the antennae is a trans- 

 verse carination, extending obliquely upwards to the inner and upper 

 margins of the eyes ; connecting this with the basal line is a longi- 

 tudinal medial fovea : eyes large, subglobose, lateral, situated a little 

 below the anterior margin of the thorax ; surface finely punctate, 

 dark fuscous, the base being broadly rufo-ferrugineous. Thorax 

 broad, transverse, depressed, considerably constricted in front ; the 

 anterior angles rounded ; the anterior margin broadly emarginate, the 

 sides marginate ; the surface deeply punctate, rufo-ferrugineous, 

 suffused medially sparingly with fuscous. Scutelkm broadly tri- 

 angular, situated in the plane of the elytra, impunctate, black. 

 Elytra broader than the thorax, robust, convex, rounded at the apex, 

 deeply punctate throughout, black : a longitudinal rufo-flavous band, 

 accurately parallel with the suture, extends at a short distance from 

 it on either side from the base to the apex ; at the apex it extends 

 transversely to the marginatum, which also is (not so broadly) 

 rufo-flavous. Antenna short, robust, incrassated towards the apex, 



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