950 MARTIN JACOBY 



distinctly punctured than the thorax, shining, black, the extreme 

 base with a short testaceous spot (sometimes indistinct) elytral 

 epipleurae broad anteriorly, continued below the middle; legs 

 slender, the posterior tibiae mucronate, the first joint of the 

 posterior tarsi as long as the following three joints together ; 

 claws appendiculate, anterior coxal cavities open. 



Garin Gheba; Garin Asciuii Gheba, 1200-1300 m. 



The strongly constricted and proportionately long thorax 

 gives this species a rather strange appearance and different from 

 most of its allies, of which however it possesses all the structural 

 characters , the basal spot may in some specimens possibly as- 

 sume the shape of a vitta. 



111. Luperocles impressipenniis, n. sp. 



Black, the basal two joints of the antennae fulvous, the head 

 and thorax pale fulvous, impunctate ; elytra scarcely perceptibly 

 punctured, fulvous, the basal portion (in shape of a subtriangular 

 stripe), flavous. 



(T. Elytra with an elongate suturai depression below the 

 base. 



Length 2 lines. 



Of rather strongly convex shape, the head dark fulvous, im- 

 punctate, the frontal elevations nearly contiguous, the labrum 

 and palpi black, the antennae nearly two thirds the length of 

 the body, black, the lower two joints fulvous, the third joint 

 one half longer than the second, the fourth double the length 

 of the third joint ; thorax scarcel}?- twice as broad as long, the 

 sides nearly straight , the angles obtuse , the posterior margin 

 rounded, the surface convex, impunctate, scutellum black; elytra 

 convex, microscopically punctured, fulvous, this colour mter- 

 rupted by a posteriorly pointed more or less triangular flavous 

 stripe, extending from the base downwards, the suture at 

 each side with an elongate shallow fovea placed below the 

 scutellum , elytral epipleurae extending belo^' the middle , 

 underside and legs black clothed with yellow pubescence, the 



