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separated from each other on the forehead by a space only about 
one-third of the width of the rostrum, and its open scrobes which 
cut the upper surface of the rostrum sufficiently to be ‚both 
and lateral) the interval between them is greater than that 
between the p and only a small part of both scrobes can be 
seen togethe 
N. en sp. abe Piceo-rufa, pube albida variegata; hac 
in rostro vage, in capite longitudinaliter (et cirea 
oculos) lineatim, in prothorace vage, in scutello confertim, 
in elytris reticulatim et macula in pygidio ita ut annulos 
interrupte) sat dense, disposita; antennarum clava et 
pedum nonnullis partibus obscuris ; corpore toto (pube haud 
abrasa) confertim subtilissime subaspere punctulato; pro- 
thorace fortiter transverso, antice minus fortiter angustato, 
lateribus parum arcuatis; elytris indistincte (latera versus 
magis perspicue) UN stris vix perspicue punctulatis. 
Long., 12 1.; lat., „51. 
On this pretty little iie fine dense red-brown very s short 
pubescence covers the upper surface so closely that there is little 
apparent sculpture; but, no doubt, if the pubescence were re- 
of ashy-white This lo onger pubescence is vaguely s 
over the ee Md pronotum and densely clothes x ial 
scutellum; on th ad it forms fine lines and on the elytra it 
he 
runs in fine sinous longitudinal lines, which are here and there 
transversely connected,—some of the transverse connections 
(especially between the third and fourth longitudinal lines) being 
dilated into conspicuous blotches. The derm-pubescence is more 
there is seen to be feeble gibbosity near the base with si 
depression behind the gibbosity, then a scarcely elevated longi- 
tudinal ridge on the third interstice slightly behind its middle and 
a still slighter elevation a little nearer the base on the subsutural 
interstice while between the ridge on the third interstice and the 
lateral margin the surface is scarcely visibly depressed. 
N. Que ; sent to me by the late Mr. Cowley. 
