BLAPS HISPILABRIS. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Blackish; elytra scabrous, grooved; sutural 

 margin obsoletely reddish-brown; labrum with 

 black, rigid hairs. 



SYNONYM. 



Blaps hispilabris. Nobis. Journ. Acad. Nat. 

 Sciences, vol. iii. p. 259. 



DESCRIPTION. 



In form of the elytra, their lateral curve, ro- 

 tundity of edge, sculpture and colour, this spe- 

 cies resembles the obscura ; but the anterior 

 angles of the thorax are distinctly excurved and 

 acute, the posterior angles viewed from above 

 exhibit no excurvature ; the scutel is proportion- 

 ally smaller and more rounded, and the labrum 

 is distinctly armed with many black rigid hairs 

 extending forward, and projecting beyond the 

 extremity of the labrum. 



PLATE XVI. 



