IMATIUM. 261 



ELYTEA rotundata vel subrotundata, late striato-punctata, pube dense 

 vestita. 



PEDES : tibiis anterioribus subincurvatis ; posticis femoribus brevibus 

 et incrassatissimis ; tibiis pcene rectis, ad apicem extremum bi- 

 calcaratis. 



Labrum transverse, rounded at the margins. 



Maxillary palpi (Front, fig. 8 m ; Tab. IX. fig. 6 m) robust ; the 

 basal joint minute ; the second somewhat broader at the apex and 

 obliquely truncate ; the third nearly twice the breadth of the second, 

 in form globular ; the apical joint is minute, not elongated. 



Labial palpi (Front, fig. 8 n ; Tab. IX. fig. 6 ri) attenuate, sub- 

 cylindrical, the penultimate joint being somewhat broader than the 

 rest. 



Antennae approximate, situated between the lower margins of the 

 eyes, robust, incrassated ; the basal joint is long, thickened near the 

 apex, and not inflected ; the second is half the length of the first, 

 much narrower, and in form ovate ; the third and fourth are sub- 

 equal in length, attenuate, and not broader than the second ; the 

 remaining joints are broadly dilated and abbreviated ; near the apex 

 of all the joints are four or five distinct or rigid hairs. 



Eyes lateral, situated at the base of the head, in form subovate, 

 not prominent. 



Head depressed, almost vertical to the plane of the elytra, not pro- 

 duced in front ; above the labrum is a transverse carination ; the 

 surface is clothed with coarse pubescence, and, below the pubescence, 

 apparently punctate or granulated. 



Thorax transverse, anteriorly emarginate ; the sides are marginate ; 

 the basal line is produced medially (near the scutellum) into an ob- 

 tuse angle ; the surface is rounded, equate, and clothed throughout 

 with coarse pubescence. 



Scutellum triangular, situated slightly below the plane of the 

 elytra, finely punctate, impubescent. 



Elytra very broad and globose, rotundate, much broader and more 

 robust than the thorax ; the surface is unmarked by any antemedial 

 transverse depression ; punctate -striate ; sometimes the strias are 

 nearly obsolete, and the punctures broad and shaUow ; the surface is 

 clothed throughout more or less completely with coarse pubescence. 



Legs: the anterior sufficiently long and robust. The anterior 

 femora are cylindrical, slightly incurved. The tibice are straight, 

 hardly dilated towards the apex. The tarsi (Front, fig. 8 d) are ab- 

 breviated, the two basal joints being triangular, and subequal in size 

 not broader than the apex of the tibi ; the third joint is almost twice 

 the breadth of the basal joints, transverse, and subbilobed ; the apical 



