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margin sinuate, the posterior straight; a slight longitudinal 
fovea in front in the l 
punctate, widest behind the middle. Scutellum triangular, 
hollowed, and terminating in a poi Elytra square at the 
base; shoulders rather prominent, with a hollow on their 
LITOMECES¥*, nov. genus vel subgenus. 
Genus vel subgenus affinis Promeci, differt ab illo antennis 
tenuibus haud incrassatis versus apicem; capite et thorace 
valde elongato; elytris parallelis; femoribus elytrorum 
apice longioribus. 
Litomeces splendidus. 
Promeces splendidus, Chevy. in Thoms, Archives Entom. ii. 243, pl. xiv. 
fig. 2. 
iere vix longioribus, humeris rotundatis, fere paralle 
versus apicem paululo dilatatis, lete viridibus versus su- 
turam, nigro-viridibus ad latera; pedibus lete cyaneo- 
nigris, 
Long. 81-9 lin., lat. 2 lin. 
According to M. Chevrolat, this beautiful species is very 
like the Closteromerus imperialis of White. Tt differs from the 
true Promeces by its more delicate form, as well as by the 
characters given above. 
* Name compounded from Zifopus and Promeces, of both of which it 
shares the characters, 
