CCELOCEPHALUS, 145 



produced in front, abruptly inflected (near the insertion of the an- 

 tennae) at right angles to the base and thorax. 



Thorax quadrate, rectilinear, broader than the head, constricted 

 and transversely depressed at the base. 



Scutellum in the same plane as the elytra, indistinct, triangular. 



Elytra broader than the thorax, parallel, subcylindrical, deeply 

 punctate-striate, and clothed sparingly with pubescence. 



Legs : the anterior femora (when viewed from the front) tolerably 

 robust, and attenuated towards the apex. The tibice abruptly 

 inflected at the extreme base, straight, and gradually thickened to- 

 wards the apex. The tarsus (Tab. V. fig. 8 h) is short and broad ; 

 the two basal joints are triangular, the second being shorter and more 

 minute than the first (in Loxoprosopus the basal joint is minute, and 

 the second more elongated) ; the third broader, short, and almost 

 bilobed ; the margins and under surface are clothed with a rigid 

 thick pubescence ; the apical joint is elongated, subincurved, and 

 terminates in a bifid claw. The posterior femora are incrassated, 

 gradually tapering towards the apex. The tibice are short, distinctly 

 incurved at the immediate base, subattenuated medially, and broadly 

 dilated towards the apex, which is obliquely truncate ; the socket 

 which is thus formed, is, when viewed under a high magnifying 

 power (1-inch Boss), fringed at its margination with minute comb- 

 like teeth, and terminates ultimately in a strong (not incurved) pro- 

 jecting spur. The tarsi are elongate and narrow; the first joint 

 longer than the second (both being dilated at the apex) ; the third 

 subrotundate ; the fourth elongated, an<J terminating in a large glo- 

 bular inflation immediately above the apical claw. 



This genus is very closely allied to Loxoprosopus, and is, in fact, 

 only to be separated from it by the form (distinctly cylindrical and 

 elongate, not abruptly dilated) of the maxillary palpi, and by the 

 relative lengths of the joints of the anterior tarsus. 



1. Ccelocephalus pulchellus. (TAB. VI. fig. 4.) B.M. 



C. oblongo-ovatus, parallelus, subtiliter pubescens, fusco-niger ; 

 capite depresso, rufo-flavo ; thorace subquadrato, ad basin tenue 

 constricto, impunctato, rufo-flavo ; elytris parallelis, punctato- 

 striatis ; pedibus flavis, femoribus posticis fusco adumbratis. 



Long. corp. 2 lin., lat. f lin. 



Oblong-ovate, parallel, depressed, subpubescent, punctate, of a 

 greyish-black colour. Head depressed, vertical ; between the eyes 

 is a longitudinal medial fovea (in different Examples more or less 

 obsolete) ; eyes large, globose, lateral, situated at the base of the head ; 

 the surface is finely punctate, impubescent, rufo-flavous. Thorax 



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