110 PHTLACTICI7S. 



ad basin nigro-fusco ; thorace transverse, cequato, subgranulato ; 

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

 ad basin fiavis ; 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 Y-shaped 

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

 cular or obliquely angulated 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. Antennce 

 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, filiformes, art. 2 ndo et3 tio ad apicem dila- 

 tatis. 



PALPI LABIALES subcylindrici. 



ASTEXTSJR filiformes, sat robustce, aliquando ad apicem obsolete incras- 

 satce. 



CAPTJT verticale, via? productum, plerumque inter oculos foveolatum aut 

 carinatum. 



THORAX transversus (interdum subquadratus), ad apicem plus minus 

 constrictus, depressus. 



ELYTRA robusta, brevia, ad apicem aliquando subattenuata. 



PEDES : tibiae anteriores ad basin ipsum curvatce, haud ad apicem di- 

 latatce ; tarsi breves, art. 2 ndo minuto, 3 tto lato : femora postica 

 incrassatissima, subovata ; tibice ad apicem subdilatatce, sim- 

 plices, haud dente munita? ; tarsi breves, attenuati, art. 2 n<l et 3 tio 

 minutis. 



* <j>v\aKTiKb$, vigilans. 



