Sfi^ifn of Xrir.Xfiil'inil (^oleopteri. \'.V.) 



and Hinooth, and bears four little cliistei'M uf liiic yellow 

 setie. 



Lenfflh (rost. inel.) 2^ ; lireiultli \l line. 



Otira (Jorge. (3ne individual toiiiid hv Mr. .1. II. 

 Lewis. 



I'sfjj/tolaj; lUnticustatns, sp. n. 



Cuiivt'T, 8uhovate, widest near the midille, opaijue ; 

 npuriiigly eovered with small yellowish-jjrey .scalen and setie, 

 thesj» hitter nutre elongate and eonspicuoiis on the; sides near 

 the hase of the elytra ; pieeoiis, tarsi and autenn;e pitehy 

 retJ, 



Rostrum longer than head, hro id, nearly plane ; at the 

 point of antennal insertion, near the apex, broader below 

 than above ; nearly smooth in front, with elose rugose 

 •Neulpturc like that of the liea<l, whieh, at the base, is medially 

 deprrsscd and nearly twiee the breadth of the rostrum. 

 rimruv lu'arly twiee as broad as it is long, inueh narnnved, 

 but not constricted, towards the front, wiiieh is (jbviouNly 

 emarginate medially, base subtruneate; it is rather feebly 

 impressed behind along the middle, the surfaee appears 

 closely punctate or granulate according to ditt'erent points of 

 view, the pale s(juam;e are somewhat ciineentrated near the 

 sides. Srtiti'/liiin small, subrotundatc. Elytra of same 

 width as thorax at base, slightly broader near the middle, 

 rather gradually yet consiilerably narrowed posteriorly ; on 

 ca( h elytron, near the suture, there is a ridge which is broad 

 at the hase, somewhat compressed and more elevated near 

 the middle, but becoming obsoleie behind ; this ridge has 

 granjilar seul|)tnre near the base, but on the middle there 

 are three or four compressed dentiform prominences; the 

 second ridge is much less elevated, with granidar or minute 

 tubercular sculpture ; behind it is more sharply defined, and 

 is there covered with fine yellowish scales ; the third 

 resembles the first, but does not extend quite as far back ; 

 the fourth is indistinct as far as the middle, but behind is 

 exactly siunlar to the second, though not reaching back Jis 

 lar ; the suture along the hind slope i> like the second ridge ; 

 the intervals may be termed irregular strwe, even those along 

 the side are not distinctly punctured. 



AwXcv WT femora dilated and angulate, but not distinctly 

 dentate, underneath ; the posterior laterally compressed and 

 eurvatc ; front tibise a little flexuous, rather thit-kcr above 

 than at the extremity ; the intermediate evidently shorter, 

 densely sipiamose, with a dentiform {)n)jcetiou near the 

 extremity ; the posterior s(|uamosc, somewhat arched. 



