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angles slightly thickened and obliquely produced, surface im- 
punctate with an oblique rather deep depression at each side ; 
each elytron with about 9 or 10 not very strongly raised 
longitudinal costae, from the base to the apex, the interstices 
finely and closely punctured; epipleurae broad at the shoulders, 
gradually diminishing posteriorly; breast and abdomen black, the 
last abdominal segments margined with testaceous; legs fulvous; 
the anterior tarsi elongate-ovate, flattened, the metatarsus of 
the posterior tibiae as long as half the length of the latter. 
Q. Vertex depressed without central ridge; the first joint of 
the four anterior tarsi longer than the three following joints 
together, slender, the posterior metatarsus identical with that of 
the male insect. 
Hab. Ternate, Acqui Conora (O. Beccari). 
109. Hyphaenia (‘?) discoidalis n. sp. 
Testaceous; the vertex, antennae, tibiae and tarsi black; 
thorax flavous, transversely impressed; elytra scarcely visibly 
punctured, whitish, the base and the apices, black. 
Length 2 lines. 
Head impunctate, the vertex black, shining; the clypeus 
flavous, strongly triangularly raised; labrum and palpi black, 
the penultimate joint of the latter, thickened; antennae slender — 
and filiform, black, the first joint curved and thickened at its 
apex, the second extremely short, the third, the longest, the 
following joints gradually decreasing in length; thorax trans- 
versely subquadrate, the sides very slightly rounded before the 
middle and a little narrowed at the base, the surface with a 
transverse depression at the middle, not extending to the sides, 
impunctate, fulvous or flavous; scutellum black; elytra a little 
widened behind, the punctuation scarcely visible, the entire disc 
pale testaceous, nearly white , the basal margin and the apices 
black ; below testaceous; the breast, tibiae and the tarsi black; 
elytral epipleurae continued below the middle; the tibiae unar- 
med; the claws appendiculate ; anterior coxal cavities closed. 
