SYNONYM. 



Blaps suturalis. Nobis. Journ. Acad. Nat. 

 Sciences, vol. iii. p. 257. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black-brown, punctured : antennae, third 

 joint longer than the fourth and fifth conjointly; 

 fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh equal obconico- 

 cylindric ; eighth obconic-orbicular, shorter than 

 the preceding ; remaining joints nearly equal to 

 the eighth, globose ; the terminal one somewhat 

 conic-compressed : labrum prominent, emargi- 

 nate, and with very short yellow hairs at tip: 

 thorax transverse-quadrate ; edge deeply concave 

 before ; lateral margin dilated, reflected ; lateral 

 edge regularly arquated, slightly excurved at 

 base ; posterior edge slightly flexuose, nearly rec- 

 tilinear ; angles acute, anterior ones with a small 

 excurved point ; punctures of the disk acute, dis- 

 tant; two obsolete indented spots behind the 

 middle: scutel impunctured, distinct, acute: ely- 

 tra with seven grooves, the four sutural ones 

 each with a single series of elevated points, re- 

 maining grooves with numerous points ; a series 

 of points on each of the interstitial lines ; lateral 



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