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very fine indistinct punctures here and there. Scutellum tri- 

 angular; apex broadly rounded, surface smooth and impunctate. 

 Elytra broader at base than prothorax, very regularly punctate- 

 striate, each elytron having eleven longitudinal rows, including a 

 short sutural and an extreme marginal row ; the punctures in the 

 rows are very fine and not strongly impressed (although towards 

 the base they are comparatively more so than towards the apex, 

 where they are obsolescent), and in each row they are not placed 

 very close to each other; interstices flat and smooth, the interval 

 between the last row and the last but one broader than the others ; 



Fig. 120. — Longitarsus nigripennis, Motscb. 



lateral margins somewhat pronounced. Underside: elytral epi- 

 pleura broad and the same breadth throughout, terminating just 

 before reaching the apex ; abdominal sternites with a few scattered 

 whitish hairs at the sides ; posterior tibiae short, gradually 

 broadened towards the apex, terminating there with a sharp and 

 curved spine, and with the rounded ventral side thickly covered 

 •vith bristly hairs, more thickly towards the distal end ; the outer 

 lateral edges of the hind tibiae are without the series of short 

 spinules which is usual in Longitarsus ; the inner and outer lateral 

 edges equally set with bristly hairs; first segment of the posterior 

 tarsi more than half the length of the corresponding tibia, while 

 the whole tarsus equals the length of the tibia. 



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