432 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



narrow ; paraglossae broad, rounded at the tip, hardly longer than 

 the ligula and separated from it at a very short distance from the 

 apex; last joints of the palpi fusiform, truncate at the tip ; mandibles 

 short ; labrum with a deep puncture on each side of the base of the 

 epistoma ; antennae filiform, reaching the base of the prothorax ; 

 prothorax transverse, a little rounded laterally from the apical part 

 to the median part, a little narrowed behind with the posterior angles 

 blunt, plane on the disk and depressed laterally in the posterior part ; 

 elytra oblong, nearly plane, narrowly striate with the intervals finely 

 aciculate or shagreened, with always a series of spaced punctures on 

 the eighth interval, and occasionally on the third or the alternate 

 ones ; anterior and median tarsi of the male dilated, triangular or 

 slightly cordiform and clothed underneath with two series of 

 diagonal squamulse. 



Sy7iopsis of Species. 

 Elytra black, pubescent, intervals not punctured. 



Prothorax and elytra with a very broad ferruginous margin; {saponarius. 



elytra with brown tessellation ( Esclieri. 



I pojTcctus. 



Disk of prothorax closely and densely punctured -l tomentosus. 



\ holosericeus. 



Basal part only of the prothorax densely punctured cajfer. 



Prothorax much attenuate behind, covered with deep, mode- 

 rately dense punctures puncticollis. 



Elytra glabrous, more or less iridescent ; prothorax finely 

 aciculate in the posterior depressions. 



Intervals of elytra closely shagreened, no series of punctures 

 on the intervals integer. 



Very iridescent ; elytra narrowly edged with ferruginous ; third, 

 fifth, and seventh intervals with a series of punctures glaber. 



Elytra not edged with ferruginous, intervals broad, plane, third 

 and fifth intervals with a series of punctures connexus. 



Elytra narrow, not edged with ferruginous, intervals slightly 

 convex, third and fifth intervals with a series of punctures. . . . interstitialis. 



Prothorax with a moderately broad yellowish margin, intervals 

 set with fine closely-set punctures, third interval with a series of 

 punctures difficilis. 



Prothorax narrowly edged with yellow, intervals subaciculate, 

 third and fifth intervals with a series of punctures melancliolicus. 



Elytra with posterior yellow markings. 



Elytra subseneous, with the sutural part slightly piceous, and a 

 subquadrate sutural reddish patch on the posterior part . . . . ornatus. 

 Elytra green, with a lateral apical flavescent patch on each side scitus. 



Hypolithus saponarius, Oliv., 

 Entom., iii., 35, p. 69, pi. 3, fig. 26. 

 Antennae, palpi, labrum, and legs flavescent; head piceous, closely 



