110 PHYLACTICUS. 



ad basin nigro-fusco ; ihorace transverso, aquato, subgrannlato ; 

 elytris robustis, punctato-striatis ; antennis filiformibus, fuscis, 

 ad basin flavis ; pedibus fiavis ; tibiis tarsisque fusco suffusis. 



Long. corp. 2\ lin., lat. 1\ lin. 



Oblong-ovate, subparallel, slightly depressed ; when viewed under 

 a high power clothed with a very fine pubescence throughout ; of a 

 pale flavous colour. Head short, transverse, hardly produced ; above 

 the labrum (which is fuscous) is a triangular plane depression ; at 

 the insertion of the antennae is a minute, but distinct V-shaped 

 carination, immediately above which is a transverse fovea ; a subcir- 

 cular or obliquely angulatcd fovea extends between the upper and 

 inner margins of the eyes : the surface finely granulated throughout ; 

 at the base fuscous-black, and below the insertion of the antennae 

 flavous. Thorax transverse, rectangular, rectilinear; the anterior 

 angles subdepressed ; the sides submarginate ; the surface equate, 

 somewhat flat, and finely granulated. Scutellum triangular, im- 

 punctate, fuscous. Elytra rather broader than the thorax, subparallel, 

 punctate-striate, clothed throughout with a pale flavous pubescence, 

 so fine that it does not conceal the striae or the punctures. Antennas. 

 robust, filiform, fuscous, the three basal joints being flavous. Legs : 

 the anterior rufo-flavous, the posterior pale flavous, the tibiae and 

 tarsi being suffused with fuscous. 



Brazil. In the collection of M. Chevrolat. 



Genus 15. PHYLACTICUS *. 



Labrttm transversum, subsinuatum. 



Palpi maxillares elongati, fili formes, art. 2 ndo etS ti0 ad apicem dila- 



tcttis. 



Palpi labiales subcylindrici. 



Asttennje filiformes, sat robusta*, aliquando ad apicem obsolete ineras- 

 satce. 



Caput verticale, vix productum, plerumque inter oculos foveolatum aut 

 carinatum. 



Thorax transversus (interdum subqaadrahis), ad apicem plus minus 

 constrictus, depressus. 



Elytra robusta, brevia, ad apicem aliquando subattenuata. 



Pedes : tibice anteriores ad basin ipsum curvatat, hand ad apicem di- 

 latator ; tarsi breves, art. 2 na ° minuto, 3"° lato : femora postica 

 incrassatissima, subovata ; tibia' ad apicem subdilatatce, sim- 

 plices, baud dente munitoe ; tarsi breves, attemuati, art. 2'" 1 " ft 3"° 

 m in at is. 



* <pv\aKTiKo<, vigilans. 



