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78 A CENTURY OF UNRECORDED LOCAL COLEOPTERA. 
the head, acute ; the sides oblique and rounded, distinctly mar- 
gined ; the base sinuated ; above convex, with a small fovea 
on the disk, a row of punctures at the apex, and another at 
the base, the former somewhat deep and irregular, the latter 
smaller, interrupted in the middle, crowded towards the pos- 
terior angles in a slight depression sunk on each side, continued 
on the lateral margins, where they become scattered ; the sides 
‘broadly ferruginous. Scutellum black, glossy, very finely stri- 
gose. Hlytra ovate, rather broad, the sides somewhat arcuate 
or rounded, gradually increasing in width to a little behind 
the middle, when they are rather abruptly and very consider- 
ably attenuated, the apex obtuse, slightly rounded ; very convex, 
especially towards the base, and gradually sloping from the 
middle to the apex ; more distinctly punctate towards the base ; 
glossy, nigrofusco-subzeneus ; the shoulders, the outer margins 
of the base, and the lateral margins broadly testaceous ; the 
apex concolorous ; a short row of fine, not very numerous punc- 
‘tures on each side of the suture posteriorly, and four rows of 
more distinct impressions on each elytron, of which the innermost 
is the most regular, the others being much scattered, especially | 
after the middle, and towards the apex. Body beneath, black ; 
abdomen attenuated, with the elytra projecting over it, the 
posterior edges of the segments and the apex, rufo-testaceous. 
Legs rufo-ferruginous ; the femora, more frequently only the 
posterior, slightly clouded with fuscous ; anterior and inter- 
mediate tarsi with the three first joints in each considerably 
dilated ; posterior, with the four basal joints beneath furnished 
with very long ciliz, which are often abraded. 
Female.—Obscure above, especially on the elytra, which resem- 
ble those of C. Sturmii; slightly broader behind, and shorter 
than the male; head, thorax, and scutellum shining ; elytra 
very finely, closely, and uniformly reticulate—strigose, much 
better marked than in the males ; the puncturing more obsolete, 
and the sides more fuscescent ; posterior and intermediate tarsi 
compressed, simple, not dilated ; posterior without long ciliz. 
Closely allied to C. uliginosus, from which the form, sculp- 
ture, and the obscure tint of the female will readily distinguish 
