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 614. 

 HOLOPARAMECUS DEPRESSUS. 



Order Coleoptera. Fam. Corticaridae Curt. 



Type of the Genus, H. depressus Curt. 



HoLOPARAMECUS Curt. 



Antenna nearly as long as the head and thorax, inserted before 

 the eyes, clavate, slightly pubescent and 9-jointed, basal joint 

 subglobose, 2nd and 3rd long, of equal length, 4 following 

 ovate, the 7th being a little the stoutest, 8th and 9th forming a 

 compressed club, the former ovate-truncate, the latter orbicular, 

 acuminated at the inner angle (6). 

 Labrum semiorbicular, but slightly bristly (1). 

 Mandibles elongate-trigonate, bifid at the apex, with a broad 

 membranous internal margin (2). 



Maxill(B subrhomboidal, terminated by a small bristly internal 

 lobe and a larger external incurved one hairy at the apex. Palpi 

 short, triarticulate, basal joint obovate, truncated obliquely, 

 2nd somewhat cup-shaped, 3rd long elliptical, a little attenu- 

 ated (3). 



Labium, &c. undiscovered. 

 Head broad trigonate : eyes small, lateral, placed at the base of the 

 head. Thorax depressed somewhat obcor date-quadrate, concave be- 

 fore, straight behind, with a channel on each side, near to the basal 

 angles : scutellum none or concealed. Elytra subelliptical, narrowed 

 a little at the base and apex. Wings ample. Legs short : tro- 

 chanters slender : thighs inflated, tibiae simply clavate : tarsi rather 

 elongated, slender and triarticulate, basal joint short, stoutest in the 

 anterior ; 2nd the smallest, Brd the longest and slenderest : claws 

 small (5, afore leg). 



Depressus Curt. Ent. Mag. v. \. p. 186. — Guide, Gen. 239. 1. 



Elliptical, depressed but a little convex, shining testaceous : 

 eyes black, granulated : thorax broader than the head, indi- 

 stinctly punctured, a transverse impressed line near the base, 

 which is narrowed, with a sharp longitudinal channel on each 

 side, terminating in a fovea towards the disc, the basal angles 

 acute and the margins slightly elevated : elytra broadest a little 

 below the base, obscurely and sparingly punctured, with a 

 channel on each side the suture : length ^ a line. 



In the Author's Cabinet. 



