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latitudine fere tertia parte longior, basi truncatus, angulis posticis 
(desuper intuenti) rectis, lateraliter a basi ad apicem subaequa- 
liter, apice obtuse rotundatus; supra niger, omnino glaber, aequa- 
liter convexe rotundatus, anterius rugis transversis, subimbri- 
catis subtiliter exasperatus, subopacus, posterius subnitidus, 
subtilissime parce punctulatus, praecipue versus medium ; linea 
laevis a basi ad medium. Seutellum minutum, nigrum, rotunda- 
tum, opacum. Elytra latitudine thoracis et eo vix dimidio lon- 
giora, basi truncata, angulo humerali recto, lateraliter a basi ad 
medium recta, parallela, dein ad apicem angustato-rotundata, in 
margine apicali singulatim subrotundata, haud producta ; supra 
moderate cylindrice convexa, nigra, subnitida, margine summo 
apicali rufescente, glabra, in declivitate postica tantum pilis paucis 
griseis adspersa, punctis obsoletis, minime impressis parvis 
striata; interstitiis latis, planis, laevissimis, imo vero oculo acu- 
tissime armato subtilissime alutaceis ; declivitate postica obliqua, 
in singulo elytro parum convexe retuso-plana, lateraliter nec 
elevata nec tuberculata, sutura in ea subelevata laevi, immuni. 
Corpus subtus nigrum, subpubescens, punctulatum. Pedes 
testacel. 
Patria : America meridionalis (Venezuela). 
11. P. INFANS, Eichh. 
Oblongus, piceo-brunneus, subnitidus, densius griseo-pubescens, 
thorace breviter ovato, antrorsum angustato-constricto, posterius 
fortiter rugulose punctato, elytris cylindricis, crebre irregulariter 
lineato-punctatis; apice convexe declivi, integro, laevi, sutura 
subelevata. 
Long. 1,5 mm. 
Pityophthorus infans, * Eicux., Berl. ent. Zeit, 1871, p. 155. 
Elytris brunneo-testaceis irregulariter lineato-punctatis, densius 
griseo-pubescentibus, apice convexe subrotundatis, vix retusis, 
