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Descriptive Catalogue 



[1897. 



Club of antennae globose, carinate all round, and without any 

 striation on the outer declivity ; prothorax nearly parallel and 

 with a deep, transverse impression arduus. 



c c. 

 Femora very slender at base and strongly clavate at apex; 

 tibiae incurved. 



bb. 



Prothorax bipartite, anterior part perpendicular and much 

 higher than the posterior. 



Club thick, rounded, sharply marginate inwardly, produced 

 in a sharp, recurved spine at the tip, posterior margin nearly 

 straight, slightly grooved, upper and under parts of the outer 

 declivity with four shallow striae, the intervals of which dent 

 slightly both edges 



Club thick, rounded, sharply marginate inwardly, sinuate at 

 tip, outer part sinuate at apex and base with the basal angle 

 long and sharp, margin slightly grooved, and with two faint 

 impressions in the groove, no striae on the outer declivity 



II. 

 Head without a vertical, conical spine ; pygidium not bristly. 



bohemani. 



fallax. 



manicanus. 



mermis. 



Club of antennae thickened, longer than broad, outer margin 

 neither grooved nor scooped. 



b. 



Prothorax impressed transversely, anterior part not much 

 more raised than the posterior. 



c. 



Posterior tibiae compressed but slender. 



Club oblong, outer margin not sinuate ; prothorax constricted 

 laterally past the middle, and with a deep, median, transverse 

 impression 



Club elongato-ovate, outer margin bisinuate and incised at 

 the base above the basal outer spur ; prothorax constricted 

 laterally, and with only a very slight transverse median im- 

 pression ( aristoteli. 



a a. 

 Club long, more or less laminate and ensiform. 



bb. 

 Prothorax bipartite, the anterior part much more raised than 

 the posterior. 



c. 

 Posterior tibiae slender. 



(Elytra ferruginous red.) 

 Club long, not much curved outwardly, apex rounded and 

 slightly narrower than the base ; elytra with a black diagonal 

 band, a post-median patch and an apical spot of the same colour signaiipennis. 

 (Elytra blue black, edged with ferruginous.) 

 Club* long, broad, slightly curved, outer margin broadly 

 grooved, groove alveolate, upper edge with six serrations, inter- 

 vals of serration setulose concinniis. 



