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which are luucli less approximated at tlie base than tliosc of the 

 rest of the species belonging to this group, and with regard to 

 the two posterior cox;c, which, on the contrary, are more aj)proxi- 

 mated than in any of the sjiecies just referred to. The insect is 

 of the light brown colour of the two former, but larger and more 

 depressed. The head is strikingly large and heavy, of the width 

 of the thorax; in its hind part, which is strongly transverse, 

 the oval form prevails over that of the square. Eyes small. 

 Antennae inserted under two strong protuberances rather than 

 under a ridge ; their club four-jointed, joints 3-7 forming a 

 section of a circle bent inwards ; joints 8-10 strongly com- 

 pressed, obliquely truncated (snbperfoliated), 11 large, conic. 

 The third joint of the maxillary palpi is of an oblongo-ovate 

 shape ; the external basal angle is prolonged into a small pe- 

 duncle inserted in the apex of the second joint ; the fourth joint, 

 about the semiglobose shape of which I am not quite satisfied, 

 appears to be obliquely inserted in the tip of the preceding. 

 Thorax oval, of a similar shape to that of the former ; anterior 

 margin slightly emarginatcd. Scutellum obsolete. Elytra with 

 the traces of a humeral costa, separately rounded-off at the apex. 

 Legs strong; two posterior coxse not more distant from each 

 other than the four anterior ones ; tibiae elongated, bent at the 

 base and apex, at the latter place slightly narrowed, subcylindrie 

 and hairy; tarsi with joints 1-4 subequal, in the first pair 

 strongly contracted, joint 1 of this pair produced in a spine on 

 the inside. 



b. Mesosternal carina middling, grooved. 

 33. Scydmanus intermedins, N. 



S. alati statura sed major et robustior, colore obscuriore. Long, 

 corp. 1^ lin. 



Antennae art. 1° apice biacumhiato, 2 et 5, 3 et 4, T et 8 inter se 

 subaequalibus, 6 quarto paulo minore, obovato, 7-S subglobosis apice 

 oblique truncatis, 9-11 gradatim majoribus, obovatis, clavam forman- 

 tibus, 1 1 acuminato. Palpi maxill. art. 3° obovato, 4° miuimo, scmi- 

 globoso. Thorax subrotundatus, basi 4-fbveolatus. Elytra apice 

 singidatim rotundata. Pedes tarsis art. 1-4 gradatim minoribus vel 

 2-3 siibaequalibus, 4 auterioribus intus pilosis. ^Mesosternum sat 

 fortiter carinatum, carina dorso depJanaia, fossulata, apice acumi- 

 nata. 



This species stands in the middle between S. alatus and psela- 

 phoidcs. To the former it is allied by its general appearance 

 rather than by anything else, differing from it very much in the 

 structure of the antennae and the mesosternal carina. To the 

 latter, on the contrary, it is allied by similarity in the structure 



