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refciculate, its dorsal outline being almost flat, the front 

 margin rounded, and the central carina flattened; the elytra 

 bear a single row of white scales on tiie first interval behind 

 the thoracic spine, and the other intervals are set with 

 irregular minute dark setae ; and the metasternum is only 

 shailowly excavated in front. Tlie sternal furrow of M. me- 

 meci/lonis is very similar to that of J/, carinata, Fst., but in 

 the latter the margins of tlie apex are overhanging. 



Mecysmoderes verrucosa^ sp. n. 



cJ . Black or brownish black, shining and sparsely set with 

 very short recumbent white seteo ; the elytra with an elongate 

 patch of brown scales along each side of the thoracic spine ; 

 the tarsi testaceous. 



Head unevenly reticulate, with a well-marked central 

 carina running from the vertex to the edge of the interocular 

 depression. Eostrum stout, about as long as the front femur, 

 gradually widening from base to apex, somewhat compressed, 

 the greatest depth exceeding the width, the dorsal outline 

 strongly curved, but with a depression at the base and a deep 

 sinuation in the middle ; the upper surface rugosely punctate, 

 with a strong central carina (obsolete in the median depres- 

 sion and ceasing a little behind the insertion of the antennge) 

 and two finer irregular ones on each side. Antennae with the 

 apex of the scape not produced into a sharp point ; the 

 funicle with the two basal joints eqtial in length, 3 rather 

 shorter, 4 again much shorter, 5 and 6 bead-like. Prothorax 

 with the sides about as long as half the basal margin, slightly 

 rounded in the posterior half, abruptly narrowed in front, the 

 apical constriction being broad and collar- like, the front 

 niargin rounded dorsally and slightly produced in the middle; 

 the whole of the central portion of the disk is raised into a 

 large boss-like prominence, the top of which bears an elevation 

 on each side, the space between them being longitudinally 

 flattened; the upper surface is coarsely reticulate, with a 

 sharp central carina running from the apical edge to the tip 

 of the basal spine, and on each side of it on the apical collar 

 is another sharp carina — these being convergent behind in 

 the type and parallel in a second specimen. Elytra about as 

 long as their width at the shoulders, which are very promi- 

 nent and rounded, the humeral slope forming an angle of 

 about 70° with the main axis ; the striae broad and shallow, 

 rather sinuous, much more irregular than usual, and con- 

 taining very unequal punctures, the intervals very uneven, 

 bearing elongate tubercles and set with scattered minute 



