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Page 126. Add, after Homotyphus squalidus, 

 5 A. Homotyphus cionoides. 



H. ovatus, robustus, latus, incequalis, tuberculatus ; pube nigra et 

 fusca et sparsim rufo-fulva subtiliter vestitus, nigro-fuscus ; 

 capite brevi; thorace transverso, bituberculato, ad latera rugoso ; 

 scutello flavo ; elytris latis, punctatis, rugosis, ad basin bituber- 

 culatis, nigris, ad latera et apicem fusco-flavis, vittis duabus 

 transversis irregulariter nigris; antennis robustis, Jiliformibus, 

 ad apicem subdilatatis ; pedibus robustis, flavo-fuscis, nigro 

 maculatis. 



Long. corp. 2 lin., lat. 1^- lin. 



Ovate, broad, robust, irregularly and deeply sculptured, clothed 

 throughout with a fine pubescence ; in colour fuscous black. Head 

 short, slightly produced in front ; between the eyes the sculpturing 

 is distinctly different from that of all other species of the group ; the 

 surface is transversely depressed, giving prominence to a transverse 

 ridge immediately above the base of the antennae ; the surface is 

 clothed throughout with fine pubescence, which is in colour black, 

 a medial longitudinal line, and the inner margins of the eyes, being 

 flavous ; the eyes are lateral, and situated nearly at the base of the 

 head, in form oval. Thorax transverse, rectangular ; the sides are 

 marginate and slightly compressed in front; the whole surface is 

 occupied by irregular and well-defined excavations and ridges ; near 

 the anterior margin are two contiguous and prominent tubercular 

 elevations on either side of these, and at the base, the surface is 

 depressed, and yet corrugated with irregular ridges ; the surface is 

 clothed throughout with pubescence, rufo-fuscous suffused with 

 fuscous, the anterior tubercular elevations being more glabrous, and 

 in colour distinctly rufous. Scutellum large, distinct, situated in the 

 same plane as the elytra, in form subcordiform, and clothed with a 

 dense pubescence of. pale flavous colour. Elytra broad, short, robust, 

 irregularly sculptured, deeply but sparingly punctate ; the surface is, 

 antemedially, slightly and broadly depressed, which gives a degree 

 of prominence to the region near the scutellary angles, and also to 

 two postmedial gibbous elevations ; the whole surface is clothed with 

 close and short pubescence, which (when viewed obliquely) is pro- 

 duced occasionally into irregular and rugged tufts of hair ; the colour 

 is, near the humeral angles, around the scutellum, and near the su- 

 ture, black or fuscous black (the apex of the humeral angles itself 

 being rufous) ; the sides are broadly flavo-fuscous (suffused occa- 

 sionally with rufous), two irregular transverse markings from the 

 margination towards the suture being fuscous black ; the apex itself 



