960 MARTIN JACOBY 



thorax finely and irregularly, the elytra more strongly and 

 closely punctured. 



Far. Legs entirely testaceous or flavous. 



Length 4 lines. 



Head convex, and very broad, impunctate, transversely grooved 

 between the eyes, the latter small, the frontal tubercles rather 

 indistinct, the apex of the mandibles black, palpi slender, testa- 

 ceous, antennae nearly two -third the length of the body, widely 

 separated black, the lower three joints and the base of the fourth 

 one, flavous, the third joint shorter than the fourth; thorax 

 very short, nearly four times broader than long, the sides rather 

 rounded, the anterior angles slightly prominent, the posterior 

 ones obliquely shaped, the surface finely but not very closely punc- 

 tured, very obsoletely depressed at the sides ; scutellum broad ; 

 elytra rather convex, glabrous, strongly and closely punctured 

 with some obsolete narrow smooth longitudinal spaces, the inter- 

 spaces irregularly wrinkled, their epipleurae broad anteriorly, very 

 narrow below the middle; legs rather robust, the posterior femora 

 somewhat incrassate, the tibiae unarmed, the first joint of the 

 posterior tarsi as long as the following joints together, claws ap- 

 pendiculate; presternum narrow, the anterior coxal cavities closed. 



Palon and Garin Gheba. 



This species seems to me undoubtedly to enter the genus 

 Buphonida on account of the swollen head, the widely separated 

 base of the antennae, unarmed tibiae and closed anterior coxal 

 cavities ; it differs however from the type in the glabrous not 

 pubescent elytra, the appendiculate claws and the rather robust 

 femora, although the claws in B. evanida, Baly are described 

 as acutely appendiculate or bifid, so that there is little difference 

 in that respect; the posterior femora although slightly thickened 

 are not sufficiently so, to place the species amongst the Hal- 

 ticinae. 



126. Bixplxonid-a piceo-linilbata, n. sp. 



Testaceous, antennae (the basal joints excepted) black ; thorax 

 short, transverse, slightly depressed, nearly impunctate ; elytra 



