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minent teeth, which are curved upwards; there is a hollow 
between these, and the margin is semicircular; behind the 
thoracic truncature there are about four rows of small teeth 
running across from side to side; the posterior part of the 
thorax is finely granulose or papillose. Scutellum small and 
triangular. Elytra twice and a half the length of the thorax. 
punctate in lines, many of which are irregular. There are the 
faint traces of three coste; the apex declines rapidly, and is 
rounded at the margin; the sutural line and the margin are 
both raised at the apex, so that on each elytron they include a 
slightly depressed, coarsely punctate space, although scarcely so 
decided as to be called ‘a truncature. The underside is not 
quite so dark as the upper. 
- A single specimen. 
Srnoxyton, Guér. 
' 1. Sinoxylon pubescens. 
Piceo-fuscum, pubescens; elytris sexdentatis, sutura sine dente ; 
subtus dilutius, pedibus piceo-testaceis. se, 
Long. 34 lin., lat. 14 lin. 
Of the type of S. seadentatum, but nearly a third larger. 
Piceous brown, clothed with a short, pale griseous pubescence 
close and thickly applied on the sides and back part of the 
thorax and on the underside; fine and woolly hairs sparingly 
scattered over the elytra. Antenne and parts of the mouth 
testaceous. Head black and finely granulose ; there is a narrow 
ridge or edging along the part that lies next the thorax; a 
transyerse slightly curved line runs from the anterior inner 
angle of each eye, separating the epistome from the rest of 
the head ; the labrum is covered with fulvous pile. The thorax 
is widest at about a third from the base, the truncature of 
which is pear-shaped with the apex in front, and truncate 
with the anterior angles slightly produced, covered with tuber- 
cles, which are largest at the sides; the sides and back part 
_ nearly smooth, covered closely with pale griseous pubescence, 
among which appear a few scattered, very minute, but distinct 
papille. Scutellum small, subquadrate. Elytra with the apical 
truncature very slightly oblique, almost vertical and even, as 
if a part of the body had been cut off ;- irregularly punctate, 
faintly at the base, and gradually more deeply towards the 
apex, where the punctuation is very deep, coarse, and rugose; 
there are traces of the usual three costz on each elytron, which 
respectively terminate at the apical truncature in well-developed 
teeth ; the sutural margin and the external margin of the trun- 
