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male, in the female with five acute apical spines. Abdomen densely 

 pubescent at the apex in the male, in the female concave and rugulose. 

 Anterior tibise crenulate on the outer side, the tarsi very slender and 

 long-er thaia the femora and tibia? together. Posterior tibias triangular, 

 the first joint of the tarsi rather long-er than the tibia3, broad, flattened, 

 and ciliate, the remaining joints slender and together about half the 

 length of the first. 



Most nearly allied to T). molossus Chap. (Mon. Platypides, p. 333), 

 but in the male of that species (the only sex described) the elypeus is 

 densely pubescent and without impressions, the scape of the antennae is 

 linear instead of pyriform, and the elytra have the interstices punctured 

 and are uni-colorous, it is also rather smaller than the present species. 

 The armature at the apex of the elytra of the female is very similar to 

 D. qjiinque-sjnnosus Chap. 



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